Sweat
Author(s):
Lynn Nottage
Company:
Royal Exchange Theatre
Running time:
2h 50min approx
Age recommendation:
12+ years
Tracey and Cynthia are best friends, and after 20 years on the factory floor their friendship is ingrained with the sweat of shared manual labour.
Together, in this small Pennsylvanian town, they have celebrated birthdays, stood firm for each other and laughed until they cried.
But as fat-cat factory owners look for cheaper options, where unions are no trouble, and employees will work for less, these women are about to have the rug pulled out from under everything they know.
