Lynn Nottage, Tracey is outside the bar smoking. Monologue - Tracey from Sweat - YouTube While they talk, Oscar comes into the bar to get his things from the back and say goodbye to Stan just as Tracey comes out of the bathroom. Well. But to get to the heart of the matter: Sweat opens with scenes set in 2008, depicting a parole officer (Tyrone Wilson) in meetings with two ex-convicts, imprisoned for their involvement in the same crime, who have come through the system with deeply divergent results. PDF downloads of all 1725 LitCharts literature guides, and of every new one we publish. You hear from the old gang? Tracey goes outside to smoke a cigarette, and Oscar comes out to ask her about working at Olsteadshe recently saw a job posting at the local Latino Community Center. Tracey bitterly wonders if Cynthia received the promotion because she is Black.
"They white,". But they are passages that turn those delivering these monologues into social case studies, a status that the bluntly drawn performances do not always combat. Tracey encourages her son, escalating his confrontation into violence. More heat. Writing that cuts this close to the bone draws out the best in actors. Lynn Nottages Sweat gives us characters filled with the good and the bad and asks us to reflect on our own views and the views of others. Actors Ensemble of Berkeley is now accepting video auditions for an online workshop reading of SWEAT by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, directed by Tracy Baxter. 255 0 obj
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Less work. Lynn Nottage's Sweat gives us characters filled with the good and the bad and asks us to reflect on our own views and the views of . Time commitment: Up to 15 hours directed rehearsing (max 5 rehearsals), 4-8 . She tells Oscar that Olsteads isnt for you.. As Tracey privately muses over the citys changing landscape, feeling nostalgia for the days when people were honored for working with their hands, Oscar shows her a Spanish-language job posting for Olsteads. CHRIS: Cmon. Sweat is a two-act play written by Lynn Nottage. There is little doubt that when the rage festering among them fully erupts, no one will emerge unscarred. Definitions and examples of 136 literary terms and devices. Review: Sweat Imagines the Local Bar as a Caldron, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/theater/sweat-review-broadway.html, From left, John Earl Jelks, Carlo Albn, Johanna Day, Michelle Wilson and Allison Wright in the play Sweat., From left, Johanna Day, Khris Davis, Carlo Albn and Will Pullen in Sweat.. Ms. Whoriskey and Ms. Nottage drew on interviews with residents of Reading, Pa., ranked among the poorest cities in America, as part of their research for the play. Ive absorbed a lotta shit over the years, but I worked hard to get off that floor. With its attentively-crafted, compassionate examinations of the displaced working class, Sweat exposes the human costs of late-stage American capitalism.