About
BA American Theatre Arts’ Barn Season 2026 explores the forces that shape our lives – friendship, identity, power, and the ties that bind us. Bold, urgent, and inventive, these plays reflect the voices, passions, and contradictions of contemporary life.
Sweat by Lynn Notttage
Directed by David Gilbert
In one of the poorest cities in America – Reading, Pennsylvania – a group of factory workers struggle to keep their lives in balance, unaware of the financial devastation looming just ahead.
Based on playwright Lynn Nottage’s interviews with Reading residents, Sweat follows a group of friends pitted against one another by corporate greed and economic uncertainty.
Directed by David Gilbert, this production offers a timely and urgent reflection on labour, inequality, and the ongoing erosion of the American Dream, issues that resonates profoundly in our current political moment.
This is an amateur production by arrangement with Creative Artists Agency.
Programme
2pm, 7 February
7pm, 9 February
2pm, 10 February
7pm, 10 February
Venue: Barn Theatre, Rose Bruford College
Content & technical warnings: to be confirmed
Run time: 2 hours 30 minutes including a short interval
How to book
Please book here.
Cast
Cynthia – Dami Adelola
Chris – Josiah Adam
Brucie – Kalel-Zen
Stan – Eddie Briggs
Oscar – Rodrigo Moreira
Jason – Luke Burvill
Jessie – Keira Lake
Tracy – Maisie Marie
Evan – Prince Ekwerekwu & Leroy Davies-Richards
*Assistant Director: Madeleine Lake
Find out more about BA American Theatre Arts Class of 2026.