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MFA Collaboration Series 22/23 presents:
MFA Collaboration #2 - SWEAT
Written by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Tor Campbell.
Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 2:00PM

Hal & Martha Hyer Wallis Theater
1949 Campus Drive - Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
on the Evanston Campus of Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Located on the southeast part of the Evanston campus just off Sheridan Road on Campus Drive. The Wallis studio theatre space is on the west side of the Wirtz Center/Theater building facing west.

This production is part of the MFA Lab series, matching Northwestern's emerging MFA directors and designers for exciting and unexpected collaborations with contemporary theatre.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines race, class, and the costs of capitalism. In once prosperous Rust Belt town, a group of friends spend their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. However, when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat. Sweat captures the ever-present battle between American racial dynamics and collective progress, asking if friendships can endure when all hopes of economic stability and mobility disappear.

Estimated run time is 2 hours and 10 minutes with one intermission.