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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. \u003ci\u003eThe Clean House\u003c/i\u003e shines.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eNew Haven Advocate\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;\u003ci\u003eThe Clean House\u003c/i\u003e 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.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact, and luminously liquid, \u003ci\u003eEurydice\u003c/i\u003e reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride\u0026mdash;and on her struggle with love beyond the grave.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the first publication of Sarah Ruhl, \u0026ldquo;a playwright with a unique comic voice, perspective, and sense of theater\u0026rdquo; (\u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c/i\u003e), who is fast leaving her mark on the American stage. In the award-winning \u003ci\u003eClean House\u003c/i\u003e\u0026mdash;a play of uncommon romance and uncommon comedy\u0026mdash;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 \u003ci\u003eEurydice\u003c/i\u003e, Ruhl\u0026rsquo;s reinvention of the tragic Greek tale of love and loss, together with a third play still to be named.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Ruhl\u003c/b\u003e received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play \u003ci\u003eThe Clean House\u003c/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eEurydice\u003c/i\u003e has been produced at Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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