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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.
Ebook Sweat TCG Edition Lynn Nottage 9781559365321 Books
"Great play about real people in real situations. Fantastic read, and plenty of great monologues for older women, black women, and black men."
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Sweat TCG Edition Lynn Nottage 9781559365321 Books Reviews
- Lynn Nottage won her second Pulitzer Prize for this play in 2017 (her first was for Ruined in 2009). This play is set in 2008 in Reading, PA, and tells the stories of several individuals (black, white, and Hispanic -- all born in Reading). Most of the action takes place in several flashback scenes to 2000, where life has become increasingly difficult due to mills and factories closing down without new work coming in. The decline in jobs, wages and benefits hits the community hard, and workers turn against each other. Other problems ensue.
Ms. Nottage has a deep understanding of human struggles and a strong ear for dialogue. There are several plot surprises. As in many of her other plays, she wants the audience to think, rather than to feel good.
11/2/2018 Update Saw it staged in Philadelphia last week. It was wonderfully rendered. It comes across much better on the stage. It's worth five stars when watching (as they are meant to be). It received a very rare standing ovation from me. - Definitely one of the best plays I've ever read, it's well crafted and speaks to the everyday man. I love how this book goes to the core of the anger that is plaguing America. The anger of the working man and how he ends up taking it out on the wrong person when in essence the corporations are the ones screwing everyone.
- I taught this in my high school scene study course this year. It is a phenomenal script that is incredibly relevant to today's world. My teenagers - a mix of white, black, and latinx students - found this to be a great conversation starter about race issues. The script allowed us to explore controversial issues and difficult subjects in a way that everyone felt safe. Definitely a must read for up and coming theatre students.
- Superb writing. It must have been a gripping theatre
experience, but all of that comes through in just
the reading of the script. I felt, at the last page,
that I had actually seen a production of the play
itself. - Great play about real people in real situations. Fantastic read, and plenty of great monologues for older women, black women, and black men.
- EXCELLENT SCRIPT, EXCELLENT SLICE OF LIFE AND REALISM WITH COMPASSION
- Cannot wait to see this compelling, heartbreaking, illuminating play in person. I could feel everything steamrolling downhill, but I had to see it through. So moving. So realistic. Such AMAZING writing.
- I read this, the book is in play form, then had the opportunity to see the play as NYC theater troupe toured mid-western cities. They nailed it!
