Events

Ticket Price includes:

• private, pre-show reception (45 minutes) that would include a Sweat presentation hosted by a member of The REP’s Artistic Department.
• Each of your members would receive a complimentary glass of wine during the reception; light hor d'oreurves provided
• The REP would include San Diego Black Nurses Association in our lobby display welcoming organizations to Sweat.

About the play:

With humor and tremendous heart, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama speaks directly to the unsettling changes in America. The setting is the steel town of Reading, Pennsylvania, one of the poorest communities in America. A group of close friends share everything: drinks, secrets and laughs. When rumors of layoffs shake up the factory where they work, the fragile bonds of their community begin to splinter and a horrific crime sends shockwaves across two generations. The neighborhood bar turns into a battleground where race, class, family and friendship clash.

Acclaimed writer Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Intimate Apparel) went to Reading during the Great Recession to understand first-hand the impact of our country’s economic decline. She perfectly captures the true stories of what happened to the American working-class who feel betrayed by the false promise of the American dream.

Their struggle to reclaim what’s lost, find redemption and redefine themselves in the 21^st century are at the heart of Time Magazine’s #1 Play of 2017.