Name: Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Author: Wilson, August

Beschreibung

Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Two powerful plays about race. In "Fences", an embittered former athlete reckons with his son's familiar and potentially more likely ambitions. In "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", set for Netflix, blues diva Ma Rainey heads for the studio, with the events that follow presenting the racism at work in aspects of the jazz-era music industry. von Wilson, August

Produktdetails

Einband:

Kartoniert

Seitenzahl:

198

Erschienen:

2020-11-26

Sprache:

Englisch

EAN:

9780241987834

ISBN:

0241987830

Verlag:

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)

Gewicht:

151 g

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Über den Autor

Wilson, August

August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theatre. His first play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85. His second play, Fences, won numerous awards for best play of the year, 1987, including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Joe Turner's Come and Gone, his third play, was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. He died in 2005.