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Ruined (2008) is an American play by Lynn Nottage. The play premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago , and won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The play explores the plight of women during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
The play is a "funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood." [13] The play was nominated for the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play. [14] The play ran at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in September 2012, starring Sanaa Lathan, who played the role of the maid who becomes a stage star. [15]
The play was originally a co-production and co-commission between Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, and South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California. The play is set in New York City in 1905 and concerns a young African-American woman who travels to New York to pursue her dreams, becoming an independent woman as a seamstress .
Lynn Nottage, originally born and raised in Brooklyn, New York wrote the award-winning play, Sweat.Lynn Nottage began working on the play in 2011 by interviewing numerous residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, which at the time was, according to the United States Census Bureau, officially one of the poorest cities in America, [6] with a poverty rate of over 40%. [7]
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The play has fared better at American regional companies, such as the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. A successful revival was given at the U.K.'s Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2009. On July 31, 2010 Serious Money opened at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake , ON, directed by Eda Holmes.
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
Professor Plum – a super genius, author, and imposter whose family fortune was ruined by Mr. Boddy. Miss Scarlet – a former Las Vegas lounge performer and former lover of Mr. Green. Mrs. White – a fun-loving chief domestic of Boddy Manor, played by a man in the tradition of English pantomime and music hall. Piano Player – the murderer.