October 6, 2024

Skeleton Crew review – America’s precariat show grit in the face of crisis

Claudio Ctin1 mins
Skeleton Crew review – America’s precariat show grit in the face of crisis

Donmar Warehouse, London
An infectious soundtrack and a bubbling script boost Dominique Morisseau’s drama as the spectre of closure looms over the lives of four assembly-line workers

When in 2015 Lynn Nottage’s seminal play, Sweat, dramatised the corrosive effects of de-industralisation on blue-collar lives in rust-belt America, it looked like the future of Trumpian politics foretold.

There is a terrible circular synergy between that moment of event theatre and this one in the staging of Dominique Morisseau’s Tony award-winning drama. It features a quartet of stressed out assembly-line workers in a car factory in 2008, but feels resonant as Trump stands on the brink of re-election.

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