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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is currently playing at the National Theatre.

Chicago, 1927. In a recording studio on the city’s South Side, a battle of wills is raging.

Ma Rainey, Mother of the Blues, uses every trick in the book to fight her record producers for control of her music. Hardened by years of ill-treatment and bad deals, she’s determined that ‘Black Bottom’, the song that bears her name, will be recorded her way.

But Levee, the band’s swaggering young trumpet player, plans to catapult the band into the jazz age. His ambition puts them all in danger.

Inspired by the real-life Blues legend and infused with her music,
August Wilson
’s play speaks powerfully of a struggle for self-determination against overwhelming odds.
Sharon D Clarke
plays Ma Rainey.

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is currently playing at the National Theatre.

Chicago, 1927. In a recording studio on the city’s South Side, a battle of wills is raging.

But Levee, the band’s swaggering young trumpet player, plans to catapult the band into the jazz age. His ambition puts them all in danger.

Description

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is currently playing at the National Theatre.

Chicago, 1927. In a recording studio on the city’s South Side, a battle of wills is raging.

But Levee, the band’s swaggering young trumpet player, plans to catapult the band into the jazz age. His ambition puts them all in danger.

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Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2.15pm

Opening times

Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2.15pm

Opening times

Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2.15pm

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