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Start: Yeah? Well, my family’s been here...

Tracey

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Five
Time & Place
April 2000, Outside a bar
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Start: Yeah? Well, my family’s been here for a long time. Since the twenties, okay? They built the house that I live in. [... .. …] End: You go into the building, the walls are covered over with sheetrock, the wood painted gray, or some ungodly color, and it just makes me sad. It makes me...Whatever.

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Nottage, Lynn, Sweat, Theatre Communications Group, 2017, p. 49.

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