@article{801631,
      recid = {801631},
      author = {Nottage, Lynn,},
      title = {Sweat /},
      pages = {112 pages ;},
      abstract = {Winner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. "From  first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed  play throbs with heartfelt life, with characters as  complicated as any you'll encounter at the theater today,  and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot. That the  people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks  - too rarely given ample time on American stages - makes  the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary  drama. If I had pompoms, I'd be waving them now."--Charles  Isherwood, The New York Times. 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!"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/801631},
}