Ruined
Playwrights Canada Press · Print & ebook · September 1, 2009
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- Who it’s for
- A play where humor and song share the stage with feminist and postcolonial politics.
- Themes
- Wartime sexual violence, Civil war, Postcolonial and feminist politics
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, Historical Drama
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A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage’s extraordinary new play. The establishment’s shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war, as government soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of women, many already “ruined” by rape and torture when they were pressed into prostitution.
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Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song served alongside its postcolonial and feminist politics in the rich theatrical tradition of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage.
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A play where humor and song share the stage with feminist and postcolonial politics.
Come here for
- Humor and song threaded through wartime brutality
- Theater shaped by feminist and postcolonial politics
Expect
- An uncommonly human story in a Brechtian tradition
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 59% |
|---|---|
| Historical Drama | 37% |
| American Plays | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Plays
- Authors
- Lynn Nottage
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Published
- September 1, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wartime sexual violence · Civil war · Postcolonial and feminist politics
- Reading lane
- African American Plays