nominated for 2019's Oliver award for best new play!

After a five-star run at the Donmar Warehouse, Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat heads to the Gielgud for a strictly limited 50 performance run this June. Branded as a "breathtaking new play" (Guardian) Sweat dives into the heart of forgotten middle America and the communities that are left behind.

Based upon the town of Reading, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving industrial own which has left to rot in modern times, Sweat centres on the town's divided inhabitants. With simmering racial tensions, anger and resentment encompassing them, Reading's locals are heading towards disaster. 

Lynette Linton returns to direct with Martha Plimpton reprising her starring role as Tracey. 

Reading, Pennsylvania

Whilst conceiving the play Nottage headed to Reading which, at the time (2011), was one of the United States' poorest towns. With its poverty level at over 40%, Nottage talked and interviewed its residents, exploring what happens to the communities left behind after de-industrialisation, and how they struggle to survive.