Sweat (play)

Sweat
Written byLynn Nottage
Date premiered2015 (2015)
Place premieredOregon Shakespeare Festival
Original languageEnglish
SettingReading, Pennsylvania

Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage.[1] It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[2] The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015; it was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017. The play is centered on the working class of Reading, Pennsylvania.

  1. ^ Fottrell, Quentin. "Pulitzer Prize winner on 'Sweat,' her Broadway play about Trump's America: 'Being poor is one of the hardest jobs in the world'". Market Watch.
  2. ^ 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Nominees, The Pulitzer Prizes, 2017, retrieved 10 April 2017