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Highlights
- Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play "Lynn Nottage's best work.
- About the Author: Lynn Nottage's plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined; Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'Knockers; and POOF!
- 144 Pages
- Drama, American
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About the Book
A hard-hitting new drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Ruined.Book Synopsis
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play
"Lynn Nottage's best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations." -Hilton Als, New Yorker
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 struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on Nottage's extensive research and interviews with residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America's economic decline.
Lynn Nottage is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize Awards for Drama for Sweat and Ruined. She is the first woman playwright to be honored twice. Her other plays include Intimate Apparel; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; and Las Meninas.
Review Quotes
"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
About the Author
Lynn Nottage's plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined; Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'Knockers; and POOF! Nottage is an Associate Professor at Columbia University.