Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- When: Friday, February 25, 2011, time TBA
- Where: The Weekend Theater, Little Rock
- Cost: $10 - $14
- Age limit: Not available
- Categories: Theater
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Weekend Theater, 7th & Chester in downtown Little Rock. Fridays and Saturdays, Feb. 11-26. Tickets are $14, $10 for students and seniors age 65 & up. For more information and reservations visit www.weekendtheater.org or call 501-374-3761.
By August Wilson
February 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26
Winner of the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright August Wilson, is a searing, funny, salty, carnal and lyrical play, set in Chicago in the 1920s. Dealing with issues of race, art, religion and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers, the play is titled with reference to a song of the same title by Ma Rainey referring to the Black Bottom dance. This glimpse of a moment in the twentieth century African American experience is a portrayal of rage, racism, self hate and exploitation. Directed by Danette Scott Perry.
