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Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage, set in Reading, Pennsylvania, where a steel factory is closing and racial tensions rise. The play explores the lives and struggles of the working class, inspired by interviews with former steelworkers and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A play about the decline of a steel town and the lives of its workers. Follow the characters from 2000 to 2008 as they face layoffs, racism, violence, and hope.
Download the full text of SWEAT, a play by Lynn Nottage that explores the impact of globalization on a working-class community in Reading, Pennsylvania. The play was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and premiered Off-Broadway in 2016.
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Sweat is set in the real-life city of Reading, Pennsylvania, centering on a fictionalized working-class community of laborers who work at steel and textile mills. In 2011, Nottage began research for the play by interviewing residents in Reading, which at the time was one of the U.S.’s poorest cities with a poverty rate of over 40 percent.
Aug 16, 2015 · Lynn Nottage’s new drama, produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, examines two generations of factory workers and the decline of industry in the United States.
Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Sweat (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, 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 the recipient of a PEN ...
Mar 26, 2017 · The bar that is the principal location for “Sweat,” Lynn Nottage’s bracingly topical portrait of American dreams deferred in working-class Pennsylvania, is a place where friendships go to...
