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"For the second straight year, a play originating in Chicago has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. This year’s winner is Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined, ” her play set in an African brothel.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Nottage described herself as “jubilant” over the honor. “I don’t write a play expecting to get produced,” she said, “let alone win a Pulitzer Prize.”
“Ruined,” commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is a hard-hitting homage to Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage,” with the action moved from Europe to a bar and whorehouse in the crossfire of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite the Brechtian nods, it is an intensely original work.
It is the first Goodman commission, and the first play to premiere at the Goodman, ever to win the Pulitzer. (David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which had its American premiere at the Goodman, won the Pulitzer in 1984, but that play premiered in London.) Last year, Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Following “Ruined”’s Chicago premiere last November, it moved to the Manhattan Theatre Club, where it currently plays through May 10. Nottage said that aside from small nips and tucks, the play did not change between Chicago and New York. The play’s development and premiere at the Goodman “was one of those rare, beautiful experiences that you sometimes have in the theater,” she said."
In an interview Monday afternoon, Nottage described herself as “jubilant” over the honor. “I don’t write a play expecting to get produced,” she said, “let alone win a Pulitzer Prize.”
“Ruined,” commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is a hard-hitting homage to Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage,” with the action moved from Europe to a bar and whorehouse in the crossfire of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite the Brechtian nods, it is an intensely original work.
It is the first Goodman commission, and the first play to premiere at the Goodman, ever to win the Pulitzer. (David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which had its American premiere at the Goodman, won the Pulitzer in 1984, but that play premiered in London.) Last year, Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Following “Ruined”’s Chicago premiere last November, it moved to the Manhattan Theatre Club, where it currently plays through May 10. Nottage said that aside from small nips and tucks, the play did not change between Chicago and New York. The play’s development and premiere at the Goodman “was one of those rare, beautiful experiences that you sometimes have in the theater,” she said."
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