"Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively
consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines."--New
Haven Advocate
"The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl
story. In fact disease, death, and dirt are among the subjects it
addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, but in the more arcane
sense of the word: visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in
feeling, maybe a little nuts."--The New York Times
"Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact, and luminously liquid,
Eurydice reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to focus not on
the bereaved musician but on his dead bride--and on her struggle with
love beyond the grave."--San Francisco Chronicle
This volume is the first publication of Sarah Ruhl, "a playwright with a
unique comic voice, perspective, and sense of theater" (Variety), who
is fast leaving her mark on the American stage. In the award-winning
The Clean House--a play of uncommon romance and uncommon comedy--a
maid who hates cleaning dreams about creating the perfect joke, while a
doctor who treats cancer leaves his heart inside one of his patients.
This volume also includes Eurydice, Ruhl's reinvention of the tragic
Greek tale of love and loss, Late: A Cowboy Song, and Melancholy
Play.
Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in
2004 for her play The Clean House, which has been produced at Yale
Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, South
Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company in Washington, DC. Her play Eurydice has been produced at
Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
