Lynn Nottage Celebrates Publication of RUINED at Drama Bookshop, 10/30

On Friday, October 30, Lynn Nottage will attend a celebration at the Drama Bookshop in honor of TCG's publication of her Pulitzer Prizing winning play, Ruined.  The event will take place at 5:30pm. 

Nottage will be joined by Saidah Arrika Ekulona, who originated the lead role of Mama Nadi in the play both in Chicago and New York, for both a reading and discussion of the play moderated by David Cote. In addition, Nottage will sign copies of the play and her other works.

In Ruined, in Mama Nadi's bar in a small mining town deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo, her rules apply. No arguments, no politics, no guns. When two new girls tainted with the stigma of their recent past arrive, Mama is forced to reassess her business priorities and personal loyalties. As tales of local atrocities spread and tensions between rebels and government militia rise, the realities of life in civil war provide the ultimate test of the human spirit.

Ruined, commissioned by the Goodman Theatre Chicago, received its world premiere in their co-production with the Manhattan Theatre Club earlier this year and was, in addition to the Pulitzer, also the recipient of seven Best Play Awards including the New York Critics' Circle Award, two Drama Desk Awards and four OBIE Awards.  It will next be produced at The Almeida Theatre in the U.K. from April 15 - June 5, 2010.

Brooklyn born Lynn Nottage is also the author of the award-winning Intimate Apparel, as well as A Walk Through Time, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Mud River Stone, Por'knockers, Poof! and Las Meninas, all of which have been extensively produced Off-Broadway and regionally in the US. She is a member of New Dramatists and a graduate oF Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. In 2006 Indhu Rubasingham directed Lynn Nottage's Fabulation at the Tricycle Theatre.

For more information on the event, visit www.dramabookshop.com.