Clyde’s

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Clyde's is a play by Lynn Nottage that examines the lives of marginalized characters in blue-collar Pennsylvania. It is set in a sandwich shop that employs formerly incarcerated individuals. The play explores their experiences with reentering society after prison, as well as their hopes and dreams. Clyde's features more comedy than Nottage's previous play, Sweat, and was nominated for the Tony Award for best play in 2022. Nottage's work often focuses on marginalized communities, the working class, and race relations in America.12

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Lynn Nottage
Plays of the American working class: Sweat and Clyde’s
…followed up in 2021 with Clyde’s (originally titled Floyd’s), another examination of marginalized characters in blue-collar Pennsylvania. Featuring more comedy compared with Sweat, Clyde’s is set in a sandwich shop that employs formerly incarcerated workers, who share their stories of the difficulties of reentering society after prison as well as…
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…followed up in 2021 with Clyde’s (originally titled Floyd’s), another examination of marginalized characters in blue-collar Pennsylvania. Featuring more comedy compared with Sweat, Clyde’s is set in a sandwich shop that employs formerly incarcerated workers, who share their stories of the difficulties of reentering society after prison as well as…
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