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Its haunting beauty lies in its insistence on the undying possibility of renewal. Extraordinary --Metro
It's not merely a good play. It jolts our conscience about a forgotten conflict. One emerges both shaken and stirred. --The Guardian
It's easy to see why Ruined has scooped the Pulitzer Prize and seven best play awards Stateside. Almost 100 years after Conrad s Congolese nightmare Heart of Darkness, it shines an invaluable light on an area of the world most of us know too little about, or choose to ignore. --The Telegraph
It's not merely a good play. It jolts our conscience about a forgotten conflict. One emerges both shaken and stirred. --The Guardian
It's easy to see why Ruined has scooped the Pulitzer Prize and seven best play awards Stateside. Almost 100 years after Conrad s Congolese nightmare Heart of Darkness, it shines an invaluable light on an area of the world most of us know too little about, or choose to ignore. --The Telegraph
It's not merely a good play. It jolts our conscience about a forgotten conflict. One emerges both shaken and stirred. --The Guardian
It's easy to see why Ruined has scooped the Pulitzer Prize and seven best play awards Stateside. Almost 100 years after Conrad s Congolese nightmare Heart of Darkness, it shines an invaluable light on an area of the world most of us know too little about, or choose to ignore. --The Telegraph
It's not merely a good play. It jolts our conscience about a forgotten conflict. One emerges both shaken and stirred. --The Guardian
It's easy to see why Ruined has scooped the Pulitzer Prize and seven best play awards Stateside. Almost 100 years after Conrad s Congolese nightmare Heart of Darkness, it shines an invaluable light on an area of the world most of us know too little about, or choose to ignore. --The Telegraph
It's not merely a good play. It jolts our conscience about a forgotten conflict. One emerges both shaken and stirred. --The Guardian
It's easy to see why Ruined has scooped the Pulitzer Prize and seven best play awards Stateside. Almost 100 years after Conrad s Congolese nightmare Heart of Darkness, it shines an invaluable light on an area of the world most of us know too little about, or choose to ignore. --The Telegraph
It's not merely a good play. It jolts our conscience about a forgotten conflict. One emerges both shaken and stirred. --The Guardian
It's easy to see why Ruined has scooped the Pulitzer Prize and seven best play awards Stateside. Almost 100 years after Conrad s Congolese nightmare Heart of Darkness, it shines an invaluable light on an area of the world most of us know too little about, or choose to ignore. --The Telegraph
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2009 and the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk and Obie awards for Best Play. UK premiere at the Almeida theatre London 2010. A small mining town deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Mama Nadi's bar her rules apply. No arguments, no politics, no guns. When two new girls tainted with the stigma of their recent past arrive, Mama is forced to reassess her business priorities and personal loyalties. As tales of local atrocities spread and tensions between rebels and government militia rise, the realities of life in civil war provide the ultimate test of the human spirit.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Painfully Brilliant
10 Jan 2010
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To understand the emotional devastation and the tremendous heart of the women who live in the Congo - you must see this play!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A brothel can be a battlefield as much as anywhere else
13 Dec 2009
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A brothel can be a battlefield as much as anywhere else. Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" is a script for a play that has won several best plays of 2009 awards. Set in a Congo brothel during a civil war, "Ruined" tells of the plight of the women, when the men seem to care only about power and little else. "Ruined" proves why it's acclaimed, offering much food for thought in its text form.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Brilliant!
5 Jan 2010
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Simply put ... this is one of the best plays I've ever read! Beautiful, brutal, hopeful, angry - this is a masterpiece. I've been a theatre director for over twenty-five years and there are only a handful of plays that I couldn't put down once I'd started reading - William M. Hoffman's "As Is", Tony Kushner's "Angels In America - Millennium Approaches" and John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt, come to mind. Nattage's "Ruined" is far and away one of the best I've come across in a long time. What a way to start 2010!
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