A hilarious and hopeful play from the Pulitzer-winning playwright, set in the bustling kitchen of a run-down Pennsylvania truck stop, where the formerly incarcerated staff have been given a second chance.
Lynn Nottage Knihy
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play unfolds in a rain forest bar and brothel in war-torn Congo, where matriarch Mama Nadi navigates the brutal realities of civil war. Blending humor and song with poignant themes of postcolonialism and feminism, the play offers an intimate and gripping exploration of human resilience.
In her bar/brothel in the rainforest of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, the shrewd, larger-than-life madam both protects and profits from the women who come to her seeking refuge from rape and violence at the hands of government and rebel soldiers alike.
A heart-wrenching play about the international ivory trade, portraying humankind's capacity for corruption and greed, and our continued destruction of the natural world.
In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending time with the people of Reading, Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA. Sweat is the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that Lynn Nottage wrote following her experience.
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
- 88 stránek
- 4 hodiny čtení
A play by Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sweat, Ruined and Intimate Apparel. Crumbs from the Table of Joy is a set text for Cambridge O Level Literature in English.
A new volume of powerful monologues and scenes by female and trans writers.