Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Caroline Clark
“Sweat”, a play by Lynn Nottage, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play tells the story of a group of steel workers in Berks County, Pennsylvania. They have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a desperate fight to stay afloat. A play about the collision of race, class, family and friendship, and the tragic, unintended costs of community without opportunity.
"THE FIRST THEATRICAL LANDMARK OF THE TRUMP ERA: Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat is a tough yet empathetic portrait of the America that came undone." — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker