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  1. Sep 2018
    1. ALBERT:Nicholas'father,whereishe

      This is the turning point because it prompts Albert and Murray's conversation, and allows Sandra to feel empathy for Nick, and turns the scene darker. Lexie (UNIT THING???) I hope it worked but I am not sure

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  2. Aug 2018
    1. EW YORK — The white working-class voters who, conventional wisdom has it, put President Donald J. Trump into office are a dinner-party obsession among progressives. There are two prevailing views. One is primarily sympathetic: These voters were betrayed by NAFTA, not given the resources to retrain as factories with good union jobs closed or moved to Mexico, and their pain is legitimate and should be heard. The other is primarily dismissive: If you scratch the outer coat of their economic distress you'll find stubborn intransigence, white privilege and the color of racism underneath. And that's why they voted against their own economic self-interest.Lynn Nottage's "Sweat," an intensely felt play that began at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and now has arrived on Broadway, potent, intensely committed ensemble acting attached, wants both to have compassion for those abused workers and hold them accountable for their decision-making and poisonous attitudes.

      As my final hypothesis annotation, I notice that there are several similarities in the three articles. They mention the politics of the time (Donald Trump specifically) and connect the contents of the play to our current social situation in the US. The play was premiered in 2015, making it to broadway in 2017, which has themes that hold true even more now than when the play was written. With our newly elected president, the play makes one think of more than it would have when it premiered. There are more issues with job population and racial distress, as well as political upset. All of this is potent in the play, as well as real life, which is one of the reasons that the play is so prominent and popular today (as well as its exceptional writing). It was big enough to make it into the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, which are three of the biggest newspapers in the United States.

    1. Audiences will readily recognize the vitriol unleashed in Nottage’s timely if too plodding drama, which had its official opening Sunday night: It’s the same streak of embittered disenfranchisement in the nation’s faltering industrial belt that Donald Trump exploited to his advantage. Set in the economically stressed environs of Reading, Pa., in 2000 (and 2008), the play makes a case study out of the decline of a steel bearings plant, revealing how lives are disrupted, and ethnic and racial hatreds are stoked in the wake of a factory owner’s decision to shut down the plant and ship manufacturing jobs to another country. You have to credit Nottage for prescience: She was researching her play — which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015 and later made stops at Arena Stage in Washington and off-Broadway’s Public Theater — well before the election results identified a magnitude of disaffection caused by economic stagnation that many observers in the media and politics underestimated. That boiling sense of grievance is embodied most pointedly by Johanna Day’s Tracey, a white factory worker whose family goes back generations in the plant. Looking for scapegoats after union members are locked out, volatile Tracey turns sullenly on her recently promoted black best friend Cynthia (Michelle Wilson), and then more malevolently on Oscar (Carlo Alban), a young Latino man recruited by the company to replace the locked-out employees.

      The implications in these paragraphs are that Nottage pulled some of the themes of the plot from modern times and troubles. This is highly possible, because it does reflect the world we live in today. She also shows predictability in her text as she wrote and researched the play before these issues were so pertinent to our world currently. The turning of the different characters due to race is seen in life today, and the anger that stems from race is prominent in both the play and the reflected society. The play has a theme of racial discrimination and upset, which flows generously throughout the text and the characters, and opens the veiwers eyes about today's problems.

    1. I listened to a read through of the play, and started reading it. I have to agree that the characters drive the story. And in this paragraph it hints that the plot comes from the characters, not that the characters are under control of the plot. The characters make the plot, and the plot heavily reflects society. Nottage is seemingly excellent (again, I need to study the play in its entirety, but you don't have this much success without reason), she has built character that feel, that hurt, and that push for their wants. It allows the actor to push the boundaries of the other actors, and the characters to push the boundaries of the other characters. I am very excited to read and study the play in class.