Following a sold-out run at the Donmar Warehouse, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, and Olivier Award-nominated play Sweat transferred to the West End’s Gielgud Theatre for 50 performances.
Centred around the friendships of factory workers and set in an all-American bar, the play explores the relationships, resentments and fears of a community left divided by de-industrialisation. Simmering racial tensions and mounting anger lead to a devastating outcome for the residents of Reading, Pennsylvania.
This ‘breathtaking new play’ (Guardian) delivers ‘a knock-out blow of theatrical force’ (Daily Telegraph) as it delves deep into the forgotten heart of middle America in ‘the year’s most powerful play’ (Observer).
‘By turns profound, terrifying, earthy and witty, Lynette Linton’s superbly calibrated production excels from start to finish’ (Evening Standard) and features ‘a superlative cast’ (Sunday Times). In an era defined by division and mistrust this is a ‘humane, heartbreaking’ and ‘magnificent’ play (Financial Times).
★★★★★
‘Lynette Linton’s superbly calibrated production excels from start to finish. Outstanding’ Evening Standard
★★★★★
‘Let’s not mince words, SWEAT by Lynn Nottage is magnificent and it is brilliantly performed in Lynette Linton’s production’ Financial Times
★★★★★
‘The acting is superlative… I can’t think of any recent play that tells us so much, and so vividly, about the state of the union’ Guardian
