By Lynn Nottage (author) Part of the NHB Modern Plays series
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In one of the poorest cities in America - Reading, Pennsylvania - a group of factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future.
Based on the playwright's extensive interviews with residents of Reading, Lynn Nottage's play Sweat is a tale of friends pitted against each other by big business, and a topical reflection of the present and poignant decline of the American Dream.
The play premiered in Oregon in 2015, before being produced at the Public Theater, New York, in 2016, and the following year on Broadway, where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2018, directed by Lynette Linton, and went on to win Best Play at the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Lynn Nottage is a double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Clyde's ; Mlima's Tale ; Sweat (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark ; Ruined (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); Intimate Apparel ; Fabulation ; Crumbs from the Table of Joy ; Las Meninas ; Mud, River, Stone ; Por'knockers and POOF!
Nottage was the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play (for Ruined ), the Lee Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honours include the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, the National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award, and fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for the Arts.
She is a co-founder and producer at Market Road Films LLC, a film production company.
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In one of the poorest cities in America - Reading, Pennsylvania - a group of factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on the playwright's extensive interviews with residents of Reading, Lynn Nottage's play Sweat is a tale of friends pitted against each other by big business, and a topical reflection of the present and poignant decline of the American Dream.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Sweat and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
Sweat features in the following genres: Featured Books for 13+ readers, Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, Historical Fiction, True Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Playscripts, Drama / Performing Arts, Children’s / Teenage: General interest
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