SWEAT

by Lynn Nottage

7 December 2018 – 2 February 2019

★★★★
‘Nuanced and moving’
The Stage

★★★★★
‘An absorbing and moving cry from the heart’
WhatsOnStage

★★★★★
‘There isn’t a minute that goes by where you aren’t enthralled. Lynette Linton’s direction is superb and draws out fantastic performances from each company member. Her production is pitched perfectly in tone, and effortlessly flits between humour, heartbreak and trauma. It’s gorgeous storytelling’
Broadway World

WINNER, BEST PLAY, EVENING STANDARD THEATRE AWARDS 2019

Following a sold-out run at the Donmar Warehouse, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat transferred to the West End’s Gielgud Theatre.

In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending time with the people of Reading, Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA.

During the following two years, she dug deep into the forgotten heart of middle America, finding a city divided by racial tension and the collapse of industry.

Sweat is the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that Lynn Nottage wrote following her experience.

Her tale of friends pitted against each other by big business, and the decline of the American Dream received its UK premiere at the Donmar, directed by former Donmar Resident Assistant Director and Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre Lynette Linton.

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