Station Theatre: SWEAT
SWEAT portrays a meeting between a parole officer and two ex-convicts, and three women who were childhood friends working in the same factory. The action takes place in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, a town described as "synonymous with deindustrialisation". Switching scenes with events of eight years earlier, Lynn Nottage shows how events take individuals on divergent pathways, to a backdrop of job cuts, poverty, and downsizing, with none of the characters except the barman realizing what is at stake. Variety quotes him as warning them that "You could wake up tomorrow and all your jobs are in Mexico", to which the characters respond with lethargy and disbelief. Variety described Nottage as going into "the heart of working-class America".
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