After teaching us “How to Get Away with Murder,” Viola Davis is singing the blues as the titular character in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a stage-to-screen adaptation of August Wilson‘s 1984 play of the same name, which starts streaming on Netflix on Dec. 18.
Written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and directed by George C. Wolfe, “Ma Rainey’s” centers on a planned recording session in 1927 Chicago that falls behind schedule when Ma Rainey, the iconic “Mother of the Blues,” arrives late to the studio. As they await her advent, the singer’s band members engage in a lively conversation, with temperatures rising between the young hot-headed trumpeter Levee (Chadwick Boseman) and two veteran members, Cutler (Colman Domingo) and Toledo (Glynn Turman). When a fiery, fearless Ma finally enters, she clashes with her enraged white producers and uber-passionate trumpeter, who has an eye for her girlfriend.
An Emmy and a two-time Tony winner,...
Written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and directed by George C. Wolfe, “Ma Rainey’s” centers on a planned recording session in 1927 Chicago that falls behind schedule when Ma Rainey, the iconic “Mother of the Blues,” arrives late to the studio. As they await her advent, the singer’s band members engage in a lively conversation, with temperatures rising between the young hot-headed trumpeter Levee (Chadwick Boseman) and two veteran members, Cutler (Colman Domingo) and Toledo (Glynn Turman). When a fiery, fearless Ma finally enters, she clashes with her enraged white producers and uber-passionate trumpeter, who has an eye for her girlfriend.
An Emmy and a two-time Tony winner,...
- 11/28/2020
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
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