This plays takes place in a Black household in the years after WWII. The longtime matriarch of the Crumb household has died and in her absence a gap forms. First to fill that gap is her sister, a radical Communist and a drunk, who has a kind of sway over the father of the house. Another potential member to fill that gap is the daughter Ernestine, and finally, a German expat named Gerte. This play then deals with what it means to lose someone, to […]
A play about a hard topic to speak about.
I try to keep track of Pulitzer Prize winners, particularly in fiction and drama, because I like to have my pulse on what is winning awards and what I can teach in future classes. I saw that Lynn Nottage’s Sweat was this year’s drama winner and promptly went to my library. Of course, they don’t have it yet. So I decided the next-best thing would be to read her other Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined. In short, Ruined is about what happens to women before, during, […]