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When Ruhl was 20, her father died of cancer. "It's very much
about my dad, in a way," she says. "His sense of humor as
he went through it. And humor being kind of a saving grace."
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Few
things are more mundane than cleaning house, but in Sarah Ruhl's
luminescent new play, cleaning house becomes a deeply
personal meditiation on the jokes and jabs of human
existence... and how we make messes out of our lives. In it
you'll meet Lena, a doctor who wants a clean house but won't
clean it herself; Matilde, a maid who would rather be writing
jokes than dusting rafters; and Lena's sister Virginia, who
finds house cleaning a transcendental experience. It all
works beautifully (Virginia cleans, Matilde jokes, and Lena
is none the wiser) until Lena's husband announces he is in
love with a patient with a beautiful soul and a serious
illness. Suddenly the lives of the four women get very
messy indeed. It's a play that will move you, delight you,
and remind you that our lives are never as tidy as we deserve.
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Sarah Ruhl is one of the youngest playwrights ever to
be nominated for Pultizer Prize (for The Clean House).
She is also the only playwright to be nominated without a New
York production of her play.
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"Richly rewarding...a dizzyingly
inventive romp in which characters
circle around the truth and one
another before realizing that the
richest moments in life often are
the messiest."
- Eric Bartels, The Portland Tribune
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"To remove ink stains from white fabric:
With an eyedropper, put on some rubbing alcohol,
then vinegar, also with an eye-dropper. Coat
the stain with table salt after the applications
of alcohol and vinegar and rinse it under the
tap in very hot water, and presto... stain
completely gone!"
- Martha Stewart
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