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Lynn Nottage '86 wins the 2009 Pulitzer for drama
Lynn Nottage ’86 has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her harrowing play, Ruined, about a group of women who have been raped and brutalized during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama

A world-premiere co-production
with the Goodman Theatre.
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Kate Whoriskey

From the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?

Performances currently at the Manhattan Theatre Club (Jan 21 to May 10, 2009)
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