Sweat, Gielgud Theatre review - searing drama of working life
The indelible power of Lynn Nottage's new play confirmed in Donmar transfer There's a joke early on in Sweat, Lynn Nottage's superlative drama about American working lives, in which a lively bar-room conversation turns to the seemingly unlikely subject of NAFTA. It's 2000, the Bush presidency just around the corner, and the impact of the acronymic North American Free Trade Agreement is about to hit the industrial hea…