[NEohioPAL] KENNELLY REVIEW: Sweat @ Cleveland Play House

[Laura Kennelly]

Lynn Nottage’s tense, sometimes depressing drama *Sweat* is set in Reading,
Pennsylvania, but it might as well be in Cleveland. At least that’s how it
felt Saturday night watching the moving Cleveland Play House production
directed by Laura Kepley.

Written in 2015 and set in 2000 and 2008, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play
moves forward and back in time to show how two generations dealt with
drastic change thanks to cutbacks and recession. The Olstead steel plant
they had given their lives to and the unions they had trusted seemed
indifferent to their fate.

It’s a gripping work, one that looks at past events and humanity with an
unflinching gaze. Rather like a Shakespearean history play, it provides the
necessary background (why heavy industry workers did very well — until they
didn’t), but it isn’t a thinly disguised lecture. There’s plenty of drama
too — with intimate confessions and battle scenes that produce disastrous
results.
See the full review at
https://coolcleveland.com/2018/10/theater-review-sweat-cleveland-play-house-laura-kennelly/
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