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Bezig met laden... Sweat (TCG Edition)door Lynn Nottage
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Wow. This was an incredible and intense play. I don’t usually read plays, but I’m really glad I read this one. When our lives are so often when our lives are so often controlled by economic forces beyond ourselves, this play explores those effects. This is a powerful story about how different lives intersect, when the going gets tough. It’s about how they respond to those outside forces, and about how they figure out what to do or what not to do. Really, really powerful. I would love to see this produced. ( ) Lynn Nottage's two-act play Sweat is set in Reading, Pennsylvania, one of the poorest cities in the US. Most of the play is set in 2000 with only a couple of scenes set in 2008 to show what happened to the characters. The cast of nine characters tend to meet in a bar, where they discuss their lives, their jobs and their daily struggle of making a living in an economic crisis. Most of the characters are middle class American citizens from different backgrounds. With some characters being white, some black and one Hispanic character, race is an issue as well. Who is taking away jobs in a city that does not have to offer much in the way of prosperity anyway? Who is willing to accept lower wages? How does NAFTA affect factory workers? Is the American Dream still alive? Among others, these are the questions that are explored in the play. The play was highly successful and staged on Broadway in 2017. It earned Nottage a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. I liked how Sweat portrays the life on main street and the attainability of key values of the American Dream such as the pursuit of happiness and upward mobility. I would really like to get my hands on a recording of a performance of the play. 4.5 stars. This is a captivating play that deftly handles many issues of current day American struggles including race, loss of jobs, the plight of the middle class and immigration . The play takes place in Reading, Pa. which serves as a symbol for every town USA. The core characters are regulars at a local bar where they share both the good and bad times. The play is wonderfully realistic in its portrayal of human behavior and I can see why it received all the acclaim that it did. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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!"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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