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Introduction and Act One: Scene 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Nottage, Lynn. Ruined. Theatre Communications Group, 2009. E-book.

• The introduction begins.

• The introduction, written by Kate Whoriskey, discusses the origins of Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined.

• Scene 1 of Act One begins on page 5.

• The play takes place in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• A covered birdcage “sits conspicuously in the corner of the” (5) bar in which the first scene takes place.

• The sounds of the rainforest can be heard.

• Mama Nadi is a madam who runs a brothel and bar.

• She goes by the moniker of Mama and is in her early 40s.

• Christian, a “perpetually cheerful traveling salesman” (5) in his early forties, then enters the bar.

• He is wearing a suit that was once in fashion, but is now at least ten years old and...

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