Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and the Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom soon to be a Netflix original film starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. Fences centres on Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father, in 1950s Pittsburgh. When college athletic recruiters scout his teenage son, Troy struggles against his young son's ambition, his wife, who he understands less and less, and his own frustrated dreams. 'A prolific and successful playwright who confines his themes to African American culture...