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While “Sweat” is closely focused on the troubled relationship between Delia and Sykes, it is also set in a poor, all-black town in segregated 1920s Florida.The theme of race and class, although it is not a central part of the story’s plot, inevitably comes into play in such a setting.
In her play Sweat, Lynn Nottage makes several statements about the dominant roles that racism and racial tension play in U.S. society.Two key areas she considers are employers’ use of race as a ...
Mar 3, 2017 · Sweat begins previews March 4 on Broadway after completing a sold-out run at the Public Theater in the fall. The play “follows the unraveling of a group of steelworkers in Reading, Pennsylvania, as they are confronted with the possibility of losing their jobs and, for many, their identity,” said Nottage, associate professor of Theater Arts at the School of the Arts.
Feb 23, 2016 · The 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize was awarded Feb. 22 in London to U.S. playwright Lynn Nottage for her play Sweat, a personal and political drama exploring America's industrial decline.In a ...
Cynthia pleads with them to stop shouting and says that she’s been fighting for them—she had no idea Olstead’s was going to ship off the three machines. Tracey accuses her of avoiding them, but Cynthia says she’s been in meetings trying to get answers—she’d lose her job if management knew she was talking to them.
directed by TAMILLA WOODARD. McGuire Proscenium Stage. Sweat. Explore more. A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Reading, Pennsylvania, is a blue-collar town with generations of hardworking folks, many of whom work at Olstead’s factory and down cold beers together after hours. But the post-Y2K economy is changing, NAFTA is a new reality and rumors ...
Sweat is a realistic play, which gives the audience an insight on what life was like during a time of economical challenges in the USA in 2000 and 2008 through a representational style.
