Sentence examples for play ma from inspiring English sources

Wilson's play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was revived on Broadway in 2003 in a production starring Charles S. Dutton and Whoopi Goldberg.

Toward the end of August Wilson's exquisite play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (revived at the Royale, under the deft direction of Marion McClinton), the eponymous Delta blues singer, whose low throaty contralto broadcasts her impudence and her independence, turns to her session musicians and opines about the blues (which the real Rainey claimed to have christened in 1902 on a tent-show junket).

Each time they play, Ma encourages them to take shots at him.

"Play mas", the billboards say, "Drink Coca-Cola".

Play Mas, directed by Paulette Randall, is at the Orange Tree, Richmond, until 11 April 2015.

Do Play mas Carnival is for flexing the party muscles, not the eyeballs.

There is also The Distance, a new play by Deborah Bruce and a rare revival of Mustapha Matura's Play Mas, directed by Paulette Randall.

Carnival in Jamaica wasn't anything special, and it was prohibitively expensive for all but the very wealthy to play mas.

At the Orange Tree, we mix new plays with these re-discoveries all the time, and next year Paulette Randall will direct Mustapha Matura's Play Mas – a 1974 Court hit but not seen in the UK since.

Mr. Ackin runs one of the country's most popular Carnival bands, the groups of people who don costumes and masquerade — or play Mas, as locals call it — in the raucous annual two-day street parade.

"If you really look at those people who play Mas with the younger bands, or if you talk to a visitor abroad and say: 'Hey, have you ever heard of Trinidad Carnival?