Cover of Three Plays: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Fences / Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Three Plays: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Fences / Joe Turner's Come and Gone

This collection features Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Fences, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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