Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A powerhouse drama. . . .Lynn Nottages beautiful hideous and unpretentiously important play is ashattering intimate ... » 

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A powerhouse drama. . . .Lynn Nottages beautiful hideous and unpretentiously important play is ashattering intimate journey into faraway news reports.Linda Winer NewsdayAn intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperatelyneed wellinformed and unafraid of the worlds brutalities. Nottage is one ofour finest playwrights a smart empathetic and daring storyteller who tells astory an audience wont expect.David Cote Time Out New York A rainforest bar and brothel in the brutally wartorn Congo is the setting for LynnNottages extraordinary new play. The establishments shrewd matriarch MamaNadi keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war asgovernment soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of womenmany already ruined by rape and torture when they were pressed intoprostitution. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congorefugees Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story withhumor and song served alongside its postcolonial and feminist politics in therich theatrical tradition of Bertolt Brechts Mother Courage. Lynn Nottagesplays include Crumbs from the Table of Joy Fabulation and Intimate Apparelwinner of the American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award and theFrancesca Primus Prize. Her plays have been widely produced with IntimateApparel receiving more productions than any other play in America during the20052006 season. «