Download e-book for iPad: Ruined (TCG Edition) by Lynn Nottage

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s attractive, hideous and unpretentiously vital play [is] a shattering, intimate trip into far off information reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday

“An severe and gripping new drama . . . the type of new play we desperately desire: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities. Nottage is one in all our most interesting playwrights, a sensible, empathetic and bold storyteller who tells a narrative an viewers won’t expect.”—David Cote, Time Out New York

A rain wooded area bar and brothel within the brutally war-torn Congo is the atmosphere for Lynn Nottage’s striking new play. The establishment’s smart matriarch, Mama Nadi, retains peace among clients from each side of the civil conflict, as govt squaddies and insurgent forces alike choose between her stock of ladies, many already “ruined” via rape and torture once they have been pressed into prostitution. encouraged through interviews she performed in Africa with Congo refugees, Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human tale with humor and music served along its postcolonial and feminist politics within the wealthy theatrical culture of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage.

Lynn Nottage’s performs contain Crumbs from the desk of Joy, Fabulation, and Intimate Apparel, winner of the yank Theatre Critics’ Steinberg New Play Award and the Francesca Primus Prize. Her performs were largely produced, with Intimate Apparel receiving extra productions than the other play in the United States throughout the 2005-2006 season.