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Sweat

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Updated: June 13, 2017

Content length: 144 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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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.

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Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, offers a poignant exploration of the American working class's decline. Set in Reading, Pennsylvania, the play delves into the lives of factory workers whose long-standing friendships and community bonds are tested by economic hardship and outsourcing. Through the lens of three women—Tracey, Cynthia, and Jessie—the narrative unfolds, revealing how layoffs and the pursuit of promotions strain relationships and ignite underlying tensions. The 2008 setting, juxtaposed with flashbacks to 2000, highlights the devastating effects of deindustrialization and the erosion of the American Dream. Nottage's empathetic portrayal of these characters offers a mirror to contemporary societal challenges, making Sweat a compelling read for those interested in the complexities of class, race, and economic change.