Sweat

A.C.T.
415 Geary St. San Francisco

Lynn Nottage's Sweat is about friends and family falling apart. It's about people getting squeezed -- about how the American dream is changing, and how it's letting some people down. Variety declares this Pulitzer-winning play goes "where few playwrights have dared to go." Set in the Rust Belt, moving between 2000 and 2008, this poignant and surprisingly funny Bush-era family drama shines a light on the broken American dream experience for a whole host of people across our country, through the story of a group of friends who find themselves pitted against each other when a union lockout turns their assembly lines into picket lines. Don't miss this timely, vibrant portrait of America from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.