Here's a play to see whether it wins the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Watch for the announcement on April 20!
Everything's Ruined: A Look at the Contenders for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Ruined, Lynn Nottage's lavishly praised drama set in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, is the front-runner for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, industry people are speculating.
Ruined qualifies because it was commissioned and developed by The Goodman Theatre in Chicago and had its world premiere there in fall 2008.
The story behind Nottage's play is almost as interesting as the play itself. In the summer, she and director Kate Whoriskey journeyed to Africa to inspect the human repercussions of the decade-long civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in central Africa. They interviewed women coming over the border from the Congo, fleeing atrocities, and these anguished stories later fed the narrative of Ruined. "We were expecting horror stories, but we weren't prepared for this extent of brutality," Nottage previously told Playbill. The play is set in a brothel, where women, by becoming prostitutes, escape a possibly worse fate in the outside world, where rape and sexual abuse — often with the use of bayonet or other implements — is a common war tactic.
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