Old City Performing Arts Center
111 State StreetAbout the Play: Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Lynn Nottage’s SWEAT centers on a group of friends at their go-to bar in Reading, Pennsylvania. In the year 2000, layoffs and lockouts threaten their factory floor jobs, thrusting them into a bitter fight for survival. Produced across the country to critical and popular acclaim, SWEAT considers the effects of America’s economic decline and deindustrialization alongside a heart-wrenching examination of friendship, race, class, and trust within this community of family and friends.
Co-commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle and Arena Stage. World premiere produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This production of SWEAT was first presented in New York by The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director). Originally produced on Broadway by Stuart Thompson and Louise L. Gund.
WARNING: This production contains violence, alcohol abuse, and racial slurs. There will also be live smoking of herbal cigarettes on stage.
COVID Safety Protocols
River and Rail Theatre Company is fully committed to the health and safety of our patrons, artists and staff. In accordance with current CDC guidance, all unvaccinated patrons will be required to wear masks while in attendance. Masks are optional for vaccinated patrons. We will NOT be checking vaccination status at the door.
We look forward to shows without any COVID protocols, and we encourage those in our local community to get vaccinated.
Apr 28 - May 15, 2022
Old City Performing Arts Center
111 State Street
A professional non-profit theatre bringing together diverse communities in Knoxville to experience, develop, and discuss world-class theatre arts. Through the power and beauty of theatre, we seek to unite people from all backgrounds to experience and participate in stories that embody our shared humanity.
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