AdvertisementIn 'Sweat,' Adapting To Change Is The Hardest Work Of AllJanuary 21, 2016Elizabeth BlairfacebookEmailIn Lynn Nottage's play Sweat, Jason (Stephen Michael Spencer, left) and Chris (Tramell Tillman) are workers at a steel tubing plant in Reading, Pa. Nottage says she wanted to write about "how poverty and economic stagnation were shifting the American narrative." (Arena Stage)