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Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage. [1] It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [2] The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015; it was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017. The play is centered on the working class of Reading, Pennsylvania.
Lynn Nottage’s Sweat gives us characters filled with the good and the bad and asks us to reflect on our own views and the views of others. Nottage never tells us who’s right or who’s wrong, but always shows us who’s human.
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Sweat Summary. In September 2008, Jason, a man with white supremacist facial tattoos, meets with Evan, his African American parole officer. Jason is uncooperative when Evan asks him simple questions about his living situation and employment, and their tense interactions culminate in an argument wherein Jason yells racial slurs at Evan.
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.
Sweat is a two-act play written by Lynn Nottage. The play was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017. Sweat examines the changing lives of factory workers in Reading, Pennsylvania, between the years of 2000 and 2008. Nottage’s characters were based on personal research and interviews she conducted in Reading throughout 2011.
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Aug 16, 2015 · Lynn Nottage explains how a broken city gets a turn onstage in her play “Sweat.” Forget all that. “Sweat” is by no means a thinly dramatized op-ed piece.
