Fetch Clay, Make Man

One snuck in the back door, so the other could walk in the front. In the days before one his epic rematch with Sonny Liston, heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali forms an unlikely friendship with controversial Hollywood actor Stepin Fetchit. Based on a true story, it explores the improbable bond that forms between these drastically different, influential cultural icons – one a vibrant and audacious youth who boldly embraced controversy, the other a resentful relic vilified for playing degrading stereotypes – as they fight to shape their legacies amidst the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Derrick Sanders (The Raisin Cycle at CenterStage) directs Will Power’s absorbing, poetic, and humorous exploration of the true meaning of strength, resilience, and pride. "Riveting…engrossing" – San Francisco Chronicle.

With Eddie Ray Jackson as Muhammad Ali and Roscoe Orman (best known as Gordon on Sesame Street) as Stepin Fetchit, with Jefferson A. Russell, Robert Sicular, and Katherine Renee Turner.