Sweat

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Lynn Nottage: Sweat (2017)

112 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-55936-532-1
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OCLC Number:
945948892

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"Winner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize "From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt life, with characters as complicated as any you'll encounter at the theater today, and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot. That the people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks - too rarely given ample time on American stages - makes the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary drama. If I had pompoms, I'd be waving them now."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times No stranger to dramas both heartfelt and heart-rending, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating tragedies to date. In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggles to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near futures. Set in 2008, …

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Subjects

  • Drama
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
  • City and town life

Places

  • Pennsylvania
  • Reading