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The Clean House and Other Plays
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Clean House and Other Plays
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Sarah Ruhl
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:436 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138 |
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| Category/Genre | Plays, playscripts |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781559362665
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| Classifications | Dewey:812.6 |
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Publishing Details |
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
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| Imprint |
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
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| Publication Date |
19 January 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Lane is a successful doctor - except that her Brazilian maid hates cleaning and dreams instead about creating the perfect joke. Lane's sister, Virginia loves cleaning and does a deal with the maid to take over cleaning Lane's house. Lane's life, meanwhile, is beginning to unravel..."The Clean House" has its British premiere at Sheffield Crucible in March 2006, starring Patricia Hodge as the doctor and directed by Samuel West. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004, the only prize in the world only for women playwrights. This volume also includes "Eurydice", Ruhl's reinvention of the tragic Greek tale of love and loss - plus a third play.
Author Biography
Sarah Ruhl is a 'Playwright with a unique comic voice, perspective and sense of theatre' (Variety). The Clean House and Eurydice have been widely performed in American regional theatres.
Reviews"'Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess' New Haven Advocate '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' New York Times"
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