Month: September 2019

“Sweat” by Lynn Nottage Reflection

Now that you have finished Sweat, how do you feel about it? What is sticking with you? How has reading it changed the way you think about race and class in America? After reading Sweat, I was shocked by how its themes of race, socioeconomic status, and upward mobility still have relevance to 2019. The events in the story,…Continue Reading “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage Reflection

Sweat, Part 1, Group 1

“Sweat”, Lynn Nottage, Act 1, Pt. 1 Synopsis The setting takes place in a parole office on September 29, 2008, with the town’s Annual Fall Festival happening in the background. We are then introduced to Jason, a white American, twenty-nine-year-old man with white supremacist tattoos, and Evan, and older African-American man in his forties. At…Continue Reading Sweat, Part 1, Group 1