The Theatricalized Deindustrialization Narrative:Lynn Nottage's Sweat on and off Stage
The African American playwright Lynn Nottage won her second Pulitzer Prize for Sweat in 2017.As a typical deindustrialization narrative text,the play with its numerous stage productions was joined by the audience and certain public media,arousing considerable social attention both before and after the U.S.presidential election of 2016.Hence,it's beneficial to comprehensively examine Sweat from the dual perspectives of text and theater.Putting it in the broad political,historical,and social contexts,this paper intends to analyze how the theme of deindustrialization has been woven into the interrelated narrative landscape(Reading,the Rust Belt city),the narrative core(work),and the narrative subject(blue-collar workers).Accordingly,the theatricalized narrative with its on/off stage messages,either explicitly or implicitly,gives expression to the playwright's humanistic concern and political tendency.
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