Ruined By Lynn Nottage: Play Analysis

Out of the three full-length plays read in class, Ruined by Lynn Nottage was the best play. This play is filled of intense drama, yet it has beautiful and hideous events that bring together the play. There are many reasons as to why this play is the best, mainly because it’s targets woman who been raped, mutilated and who are now facing the consequences and putting on a brave face to get by. The play Ruined focuses more on the topic of woman. Those women are view as how of “ruined” by society. These women turn out to be prostitutes for the soldier’s who come to Mama house. These women are victims who are shunned by their own villages and become undesirable to their husbands. My interest in this play is because is a writing that exposes a