Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play “Lynn Nottage’s best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations.” –Hilton Als, New Yorker Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating tragedies to date. In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on Nottage’s extensive research and interviews with residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America’s economic decline. Lynn Nottage is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize Awards for Drama for Sweat and Ruined. She is the first woman playwright to be honored twice. Her other plays include Intimate Apparel; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; and Las Meninas.

リン・ノッテージが描くのは単なる貧困の記録ではありません。本作の魅力は、経済衰退という荒波が、長年築いた「連帯」をいかに無慈悲に引き裂くかという現代的悲劇の構築にあります。徹底した取材に基づく生々しい対話は、労働者の誇りと憎悪の境界線を浮き彫りにし、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 希望が錆びつき、日常が瓦解する過程を情熱的に描く筆致は見事です。本作は社会の不条理を直視し、失われゆく人間性の根源を問い直す至高の戯曲です。崩壊の淵で葛藤する人々の叫びは、時代を超えて私たちの胸に深く突き刺さるでしょう。