SWEAT at Spotlighters Theatre

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of friends and coworkers who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working on the same 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 heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat. Set in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, Nottage brings out the heart of working-class America (Variety), many of whom are still recovering from and coping with shutdowns of factories that sustained many towns across the United States.Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015; it was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017.

Authors

• Lynn Nottage