Ruined at Everyman Theatre

Ruined

Everyman Theatre
315 W. Fayette St Baltimore

Experience the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that will fill you with "belief in the survival of the human spirit" (NY Theatre Guide). Based on real interviews conducted by Lynn Nottage (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark), Ruined transports you into the Congo where the shrewd and savvy matriarch-turned-businesswoman, Mama Nadi, struggles to hold on to her one safe refuge - a brothel - as the world around her disintegrates into war; with women's bodies too often as the battleground. Creating poetry out of brutality and humor and optimism out of tragedy, "Nottage tells a story an audience won't expect" (Time Out New York).

Thru - Mar 8, 2015

Price: $34 - $60

Running Time: 2 Hrs, 30 mins;one intermission

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning drama Ruined made its Baltimore premiere at Everyman Theatre officially opening last night, offering a powerfully poignant portrait of barbarically ravaged women who endure continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo with quiet stamina and remarkably resiliency."

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- Gina Jun

Baltimore Sun - Recommended

"...How Mama and her "girls" cope and hope is the main focal point of "Ruined," an alternately unnerving, funny, bleak and vaguely optimistic work that's deeply rooted in reality. By putting such a clear and haunted face on the hideous violence that has come to define the Congo, the playwright makes it hard to look sometimes, yet just as hard to look away."

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- Tim Smith

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...But the horrors of war are not the principal focus of Nottage's script nor of Tazewell Thompson's crisp direction. No, our attention is always turned to the question of what Mama must do to make the best of a horrible situation. We may not like the choices she has been given-offering blow jobs to killers or becoming the target of killers-but Nottage never pretends that the choice is something else. And Ursula, in a magnificent performance, makes it clear how much strength is required for such a decision and how much it takes out of her each time."

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- Lynn Nottage

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"...This is not a play for everyone. It can be very difficult to watch but this is an important story that needs to be told. Everyman's production does justice to the material and the courage of all women caught in conflicts around the world."

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- Lynne Menefee

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Mama Nadi wields more than a weapon in Ruined, Lynn Nottage’s shattering take on Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, examining the brutal maneuvers necessary to survive amid the amorality of war.

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- Jayne Blanchard

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