- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 86pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781350234734
- Product code: 530189
One Night in Miami...
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On 25 February 1964 Cassius Clay, the future Muhammad Ali, celebrates winning his first world heavyweight boxing title in a Miami hotel room with three friends: Malcolm X, ‘the king of soul’ singer Sam Cooke, and the American football star Jim Brown. Combining the personal and the political, Powers’ award-winning play – a fictional account of a real event – was first performed in 2013. With an introduction by Matthew Xia.
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25 February 1964: 22-year-old Cassius Clay, soon to be Muhammad Ali, has just won the world heavyweight boxing title. Instead of hitting the town, he chooses to celebrate in a Miami hotel room with three close friends - activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and American football star Jim Brown.
This fictional account of a real night imagines what might have happened in that tiny hotel room. As the Civil Rights movement stirs outside, and the melody of 'A Change is Gonna Come' hangs in the air, four men will emerge from that one night ready to define a new world.
Kemp Powers' award-winning debut play One Night in Miami... deftly combines the personal and the political at a pivotal moment in history; it received the Ted Schmitt Award 2013 for its world premiere, and went on to be adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Regina King in 2020. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series with a brand new introduction by Matthew Xia.
This fictional account of a real night imagines what might have happened in that tiny hotel room. As the Civil Rights movement stirs outside, and the melody of 'A Change is Gonna Come' hangs in the air, four men will emerge from that one night ready to define a new world.
Kemp Powers' award-winning debut play One Night in Miami... deftly combines the personal and the political at a pivotal moment in history; it received the Ted Schmitt Award 2013 for its world premiere, and went on to be adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Regina King in 2020. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series with a brand new introduction by Matthew Xia.
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On 25 February 1964 Cassius Clay, the future Muhammad Ali, celebrates winning his first world heavyweight boxing title in a Miami hotel room with three friends: Malcolm X, ‘the king of soul’ singer Sam Cooke, and the American football star Jim Brown. Combining the personal and the political, Powers’ award-winning play – a fictional account of a real event – was first performed in 2013. With an introduction by Matthew Xia.
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