Chris Daniels at The Show Report had a lot to say about our virtual staged production of Sweat…
Buy Tickets | Find out more | Read the full review“From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt life, with characters as complicated as any you’ll encounter from any theater, and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot.”
“Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart”
“blazingly well-acted”
“With its large cast of precisely drawn characters — most of whom, when not riled by fear about their dimming futures, are great company — the fire-eating “Sweat” brims with a kind of ripe, richly imagined life. Ms. Nottage’s colloquial dialogue doesn’t approach or even attempt lyricism, but Jessie delivers a beautiful monologue about the life she might have led had she not, when still a teenager, started working in a factory.”
“The issues this drama raises — painfully timely ones — surface organically from the circumstances, and complex matters of race, class and culture are handled with impeccable deftness.”
“The ensemble is exemplary, so uniformly excellent that I cannot point to a single performance as rising above the rest. To laud them individually would require another review.”
“Let it be enough to say that each actor locates the rich humanity in his or her character, and transmits it to the audience with deceptive ease. When the play reaches its climax, we feel so swept up in the fracturing lives of the people onstage that the distance between that world and the real one it reflects with such searing precision has all but collapsed.”
“Highly Recommended!”
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