Sweat (TCG Edition)

A great play. I found the characters, setting, language and plot to be very realistic and the story to be gripping. I would pair this play with "Hillbilly Elegy" (also a great book) to get a good understanding of what is going on in rural / post factory America today. Although the plot is saddening, the ending is hopeful. I'm not sure real life would be so hopeful and forgiving to these characters, but it makes for good reading.

Enjoy it

Nice book overall, pretty funny. Everything related to PA and Philly were correct. Didn’t like the ending, felt abrupt and lazy.

One of the best plays I have ever read. Nottage creates authentic characters and captures the socio-cultural elements of the period so beautifully.

I taught this in my high school scene study course this year. It is a phenomenal script that is incredibly relevant to today's world. My teenagers - a mix of white, black, and latinx students - found this to be a great conversation starter about race issues. The script allowed us to explore controversial issues and difficult subjects in a way that everyone felt safe. Definitely a must read for up and coming theatre students.

Definitely one of the best plays I've ever read, it's well crafted and speaks to the everyday man. I love how this book goes to the core of the anger that is plaguing America. The anger of the working man and how he ends up taking it out on the wrong person when in essence the corporations are the ones screwing everyone.

I have read all of Lynn's plays. Each is unique, each full of complex characters, each brutally honest and exquisitely painful. SWEAT is alarmingly accurate in its portrayl of depressed and backward Berks County, PA and the decline of factory, union, and the community. Relationships are both created and destroyed in this piece, as time flashes forward and backward, and the meanings of friendship and family are disolved and redefined.

If you are working class poor you are already familiar with the dynamics and story that goes on here. Nobody is a hero except for those we deem “other”. We don’t take out our frustrations on who and what directly affects us and instead turn around and place blame and anger on those we perceive to have less power than we do. It’s happened before and will happen again until we learn. It’s the American way.