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The play portrays a meeting between a parole officer and two ex-convicts, and three women who were childhood friends working in the same factory.[1] The action takes place in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania,[6] a town described as "synonymous with deindustrialisation".[7] Switching scenes with events of eight years earlier, Nottage shows how events take individuals on divergent pathways,[6] to a backdrop of job cuts, poverty, and downsizing, with none of the characters except the barman realising what is at stake. Variety quotes him as warning them that "You could wake up tomorrow and all your jobs are in Mexico", to which the characters respond with lethargy and disbelief. Variety described Nottage as going into "the heart of working-class America".[8] The characters have been described as being blue-collar workers who voted in Donald Trump as President.[3]
The play also examines the disintegration of a friendship; two of the women – one white, one black – apply for the same management job. The latter character gets the position, but soon, when the company does indeed move jobs to Mexico, and the trade union goes on strike, the workers are locked out. The management/worker division begins to separate the friends, and racial tensions separate them further.[6]
The play portrays a meeting between a parole officer and two ex-convicts, and three women who were childhood friends working in the same factory.[1] The action takes place in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania,[6] a town described as "synonymous with deindustrialisation".[7] Switching scenes with events of eight years earlier, Nottage shows how events take individuals on divergent pathways,[6] to a backdrop of job cuts, poverty, and downsizing, with none of the characters except the barman realising what is at stake. Variety quotes him as warning them that "You could wake up tomorrow and all your jobs are in Mexico", to which the characters respond with lethargy and disbelief. Variety described Nottage as going into "the heart of working-class America".[8] The characters have been described as being blue-collar workers who voted in Donald Trump as President.[3]
The play also examines the disintegration of a friendship; two of the women – one white, one black – apply for the same management job. The latter character gets the position, but soon, when the company does indeed move jobs to Mexico, and the trade union goes on strike, the workers are locked out. The management/worker division begins to separate the friends, and racial tensions separate them further.[6]
The play portrays a meeting between a parole officer and two ex-convicts, and three women who were childhood friends working in the same factory.[1] The action takes place in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania,[6] a town described as "synonymous with deindustrialisation".[7] Switching scenes with events of eight years earlier, Nottage shows how events take individuals on divergent pathways,[6] to a backdrop of job cuts, poverty, and downsizing, with none of the characters except the barman realising what is at stake. Variety quotes him as warning them that "You could wake up tomorrow and all your jobs are in Mexico", to which the characters respond with lethargy and disbelief. Variety described Nottage as going into "the heart of working-class America".[8] The characters have been described as being blue-collar workers who voted in Donald Trump as President.[3]
The play also examines the disintegration of a friendship; two of the women – one white, one black – apply for the same management job. The latter character gets the position, but soon, when the company does indeed move jobs to Mexico, and the trade union goes on strike, the workers are locked out. The management/worker division begins to separate the friends, and racial tensions separate them further.[6]