Fetch Clay, Make Man

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About This Show

In the days leading up to one of Cassius Clay’s most anticipated fights, the heavyweight boxing champion forms an unlikely friendship with the controversial Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. With a rhythmic script by award-winning performer and playwright Will Power, who received rave reviews for his hip-hop productions of Flow and The Seven at NYTW, and direction by Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff (The Who’s Tommy, Jersey Boys), Fetch Clay, Make Man explores the improbable bond that forms between two drastically different and influential cultural icons. One a vibrant and audacious youth, the other a resentful and almost forgotten relic – as they fight to form their public personas and shape their legacies amidst the struggle of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s. This true story is as powerful and poetic as Clay himself while also humorous and irreverent like Fetchit’s signature act. Finding commonality in contradiction, Fetch Clay examines the true meaning of strength, resilience and pride.

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: August 23, 2013 Final Performance: October 13, 2013

Theatermania Review

| | September 11, 2013
Playwright Will Power molds a powerful historical drama about the friendship between boxing champion Muhammad Ali and controversial black film star Stepin Fetchit.

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