Reviews

Ruined by Lynn Nottage

kimberly_levaco's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Nottages riff on Mother Courage is one of the most important plays of the modern era

tilde_sousa's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

ebunk's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and War

jessrock's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Lynn Nottage is so good. This play earned her her first of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. It’s set in war-ravaged Congo at a bar/brothel run by a woman who refuses to take a public side about the war, welcoming all who enter. She is bossy and demanding of the women who work there but is also fiercely protective of them and fully aware that all of them - herself included - are safer in this whorehouse than they are anywhere else in their country. 

cooper_michael's review

5.0

Breathtaking, horrendous, this is a very important play that made me think, heart, and want to create change.

taysmoonie's review

4.5

Frickin heartbreaking.  

books_xoxo's review

medium-paced

4.5

isa1864's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

hilspd's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

snarkyrain's review

fast-paced

3.75

“In the United States, we have the money to create weaponry that removes us from the violence we enact.”

Say it louder for the people in the back.