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No stranger to dramas both heartfelt and heart rending, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright 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 struggles to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near futures Set in 2008, the powerful crux of this new play is knowing the fate of the characters long before it s even in their sights Based on Nottage s extensive research and interviews with real residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America s economic decline.Lynn Nottage s plays include the Pulitzer Prize winning Ruined Intimate Apparel, the most widely produced play of the 2005 2006 theater season in America, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Fabulation, or the Re Education of Undine Crumbs from the Table of Joy Las Meninas Mud, River, Stone Por knockers, and POOF Read Sweat By Lynn Nottage – kino-fada.fr As I return from vacation, my personal Pulitzer reading challenge has resumed This year s Pulitzer winner for drama is Sweat by Lynn Nottage Nottage is the first woman to win the award for playwrights twice and has won multiple awards for her work Set near her hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania, Sweat details the life of a close knit group of friends who have been affected by their factory closing, ending the only way of life the town has known for generations Nottage has the drama play out o As I return from vacation, my personal Pulitzer reading challenge has resumed This year s Pulitzer winner for drama is Sweat by Lynn Nottage Nottage is the first woman to win the award for playwrights twice and has won multiple awards for her work Set near her hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania, Sweat details the life of a close knit group of friends who have been affected by their factory closing, ending the only way of life the town has known for generations Nottage has the drama play out over eight years Leading into each scene she includes the political and social climate of the day in order to get a feel for what blue collar workers are going through Most of the protagonists w...Lynn Nottage s Pulitzer winning play Sweat, is set in a bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, and shines a light on the once unionized manufacturing base of America s industrial engine, once corporations moved operations abroad The play closed on Broadway in June 2017 after a successful run off Broadway and around the country Reading, Pennsylvania, I read somewhere, had one of the fastest de industrializations and became one of the poorest cities in America Factories did not give advance notice of th Lynn Nottage s Pulitzer winning play Sweat, is set in a bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, and shines a light on the once unionized manufacturing base of America s industrial engine, once corporations moved operations abroad The play closed on Broadway in June 2017 after a successful run off Broadway and around the country Reading, Pennsylvania, I read somewhere, had o...I read this play for a seminar I am taking this summer This play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2017 Set in 2000 2008 in Reading, PA, the play deals with tension among the factory workers The play is set in a bar where the friends commiserate and discuss what is happening with their jobs...I broke down just reading this I can imagine what it s like to see it performed The anger, the resentment, the confusion, the bitterness are all so tangible And so fresh in my mind This play jumps between 2000 and 2008, mostly centered in a bar in Reading, PA, from just before W won the election into everything going to hell when the recession hit The stage directions at the top of each scene are helpful in placing the reader in what s going on in the world, giving national and local headli I broke down just reading this I can imagine what it s like to see it performed The anger, the resentment, the confusion, the bitterness are all so tangible And so fresh in my mind This play jumps between 2000 and 2008, mostly centered in a bar in Reading, PA, from just before W won the election into everything going to hell when the recession hit The stage directions at the top of each scene are helpful in placing the reader in what s going on in the world, giving national and local headlines.Some personal background I graduated high school in 2007 Went to college for four years, the latter two of which I was working full time alongside going to school full time By the end of that last year of school, on top of a ton of things I was so burnt out Still haven t graduated, but that s a different story Those two years were also spent working in a factory here in NE Ohio, so while ...A quick, gripping read about the consequences for working class people when longtime jobs disappear I have a special interest in this one, because the setting Reading, PA is 5 minutes away from where I grew up Nottage hits on something really important w...FIRST LINE REVIEW So, you got a job Jobs are at the heart of this newest Pulitzer winning drama More specifically, the loss of jobs in 21st C America And the impact of job loss on the people struggling to transition from what they had to what they no longer have I loved Nottage s last Pulitzer winning play, Ruined LOVED it Edgy, humorous, important, deeply moving This new one Not so much, I m afraid I was frustrated with the characters lack of empathy and stubbornness The quickn FIRST LINE REVIEW So, you got a job Jobs are at the heart of this newest Pulitzer winning drama More specifically, the loss of jobs in 21st C America And the impact of job loss on the people struggling to transition from what they had to what they no longer have I loved N...Yeah I get why this won the Pulitzer Dealing with socio economic political ISSUES in contemporary America, in a sort of square play not a bad thing necessarily I mean, it s really good I wish it was slightlyplayful with form, but it s really solid Great ensemble piece.Oh, my I sobbed as I finished reading the play I can only imagine what it would feel like as an audience memberespecially one who calls Berks County home, lived in Reading for the first 8 yrs of my life, and has family and friends who were affected by NAFTA and economic changes within the time period the play spans.What isinteresting to ponder is to fast forward 9 years from 2008, to our current year and circumstances When you read this, especially if you are a native to the area, c Oh, my I sobbed as I finished reading the play I can only imagine what it would feel like as an audience memberespecially one who calls Berks County home, lived in Reading for the first 8 yrs of my life, and has family and friends who were affected by NAFTA and economic changes within the time period the play spans.What isinteresting to ponder is to fast forward 9 years from 2008, to our current year and circumstances When you read this, especially if you are a native to the area, consider Oscar and his 2008 situation, his 2000 situation, and what, most likely, those like Oscar dwelling in Reading experience in 2017 Some of what the white and African American characters represented in this play experienced in 2000 2008 has equally hit the Hispanic population in this area since then.Evenremarkable is that, from my experience, this play easily may be ...So easy to see why this won the Pulitzer, Sweat captures the cultural zeitgeist of our country right now If you want to understand why the election turned out the way it did or the cultural racial divide of our country, this is the play to read.Dialogue so real it hurts This is a biting and fierce account of working class America and how they survive.

Sweat
  • English
  • 21 August 2017
  • Paperback
  • 125 pages
  • 1559365323
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Sweat