Fetch Clay, Make Man: A Play

Will Powers’s play Fetch Clay, Make Man examines the relationship between actor Stephin Fetchit and boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

Set on the eve of the Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston rematch, and based on the friendship between the actor Stepin Fetchit and Clay—soon to become Muhammad Ali—Fetch Clay, Make Man explores how each handled a life in the public eye as black men in their respective eras—Hollywood in the 1920s, where a black actor’s career depended on playing caricatures, and the mid-196...