Sweat (NHB Modern Plays)

Profound, terrifying, earthy and witty... exquisitely empathetic... outstanding. Five stars. --Evening Standard\nIn one of the poorest cities in America - Reading, Pennsylvania - a group of factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future.\nBased on the playwright's extensive interviews with residents of Reading, Sweat is a tale of friends pitted against each other by big business, and a topical reflection of the present and poignant decline of the American Dream.\nThe play premiered in Oregon in 2015, before being produced at the Public Theater, New York, in 2016, and the following year on Broadway, where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2018.