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‘A hugely important play’
PAUL FOLEY highly recommends a play that movingly addresses the fallout from a major industrial employer shutting up shop
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SWEAT
Royal Exchange Manchester

 

WHAT happens to a working-class community when the major industrial employer shuts up shop? The answer is a lot and it’s not good. Lives fall apart and once-solid friendships fray, scapegoats are sought.

All this is devastatingly explored by Lynn Nottage in her Pulitzer prize-winning play SWEAT. A working-class community built around the steelworks in Reading, Pennsylvania, is shattered as the cloud of poverty hangs over them following the outsourcing of their jobs.

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