If you only knew playwright Lynn Nottage for the works that earned her Pulitzer Prizes in 2009 and 2017, you might assume her focus is political theater. Ruined looks at women in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sweat, which follows factory workers in Reading, Pennsylvania, has just finished a Public Theater tour of the Rust Belt. "It is definitely art as activism," says Nottage of Sweat's swing-state productions. "But there are plays I write because I want to entertain the audience." Case in point: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, her 2004 tale of a New York publicist's fall from grace, which will be restaged starting November 19 at New York's Signature Theatre. Nottage has also penned musical books for a Michael Jackson project and an adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees, opening at the Atlantic Theater Company next May. "As a playwright, I'm so used to being in the driver's seat," Nottage explains. "Here the songs get to be expansive, and I'm passing the ball to the person who's going to dunk it."
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机译：如果您只知道剧作家林恩·诺塔奇（Lynn Nottage）的作品在2009年和2017年获得了普利策奖，那么您可能会认为她的重点是政治领域。鲁尼（Ruined）看着饱受战争n的刚果民主共和国的女性，而汗（Sweat）紧随宾夕法尼亚州雷丁（Reading）的工厂工人之后，刚刚完成了对锈地带的公共剧院之旅。 Sweat的摇摆状态作品Nottage说：“这绝对是一种艺术，就像激进主义者一样。” “但是我写剧本是因为我想娱乐听众。 19日在纽约的签名剧院举行。诺塔奇还为迈克尔·杰克逊（Michael Jackson）的一个项目和《蜜蜂的秘密生活》（The Secret Life of Bees）改编了音乐书籍，该电影将于明年5月在大西洋剧院公司开幕。 “作为一名编剧，我已经习惯了坐在驾驶员座位上，” Nottage解释道。 “这里的歌声变得很宽泛，我把球传给了要扣篮的人。”
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