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Sweat (Theatre)

 Sweat (Theatre)
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 Sweat (Theatre)
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 Sweat (Theatre)
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 Sweat
 Sweat (Theatre)
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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sweat is a 2015 play by Lynn Nottage. It is a working-class drama set in Reading, Pennsylvania, with the bulk of the action in the year 2000.The action centers on the workers at a manufacturing plant in town. Tracey, who is white, and Cynthia, who is black, are long-time best friends and co-workers at the Olmstead manufacturing plant. Their friendship, however, is put to the test when they both apply for a promotion to management and Cynthia gets it.A far more severe test comes when the owners of the plant lock out the union and demand they accept a radical reduction in wages. As the factory workers suffer through a prolonged lockout and scabs take their places at the plant, the bonds of friendship come undone.
 Sweat (Theatre)
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 2022-08-09T14:32:47Z
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 2022-08-09T14:32:47Z
 Sweat (Theatre)
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 Sweat (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b
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 Downer Ending
 Sweat (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b
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 Downer Ending: The plant is closed, and all the jobs are gone. Tracey and Cynthia's friendship is shattered and Tracey is a drug addict. Jason and Chris are ex-cons, left unable to say anything to each other, and Stan is crippled and suffering with brain damage after getting hit with the bat.
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 Sweat (Theatre) / int_5a89975a
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 Breast Attack
 Sweat (Theatre) / int_5a89975a
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 Breast Attack: A melancholy Tracey remembers one time they went to Atlantic City, and a woman with an enhanced bosom started hitting on Cynthia's husband Brucie right in front of Cynthia. Cynthia sank her fingernails right into the other woman's breast, and a Cat Fight ensued.
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 Sweat (Theatre) / int_716d9138
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 Bar Brawl
 Sweat (Theatre) / int_716d9138
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 Bar Brawl: With a tragic ending. A fight breaks out between Oscar, who is a scab at the plant, and Chris and Jason, union members locked out of the plant. It ends with Stan getting cracked in the head with a bat and left with permanent brain damage.
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 Sweat (Theatre) / int_be5e459b
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 The Bartender
 Sweat (Theatre) / int_be5e459b
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 The Bartender: Stan, who tends bar after having suffered an injury at the plant. He tries to be a neutral arbiter between all the people fighting about the lockout.
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 Sweat (Theatre)

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