The Clean House and Other Plays

The Clean House and Other Plays Synopsis

A collection of plays by the award-winning American playwright Sarah Ruhl, a dramatist with 'a unique comic voice, perspective and sense of theatre' Variety.

This volume includes:

The Clean House (4f 1m) (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2004; Off-Broadway, 2006), a romantic comedy about loss, love, change and redemption. Winner of the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and a finalist for the 2005 Puliter Prize.

Eurydice (4f 5m) (Madison Repertory Theatre, 2003; Off-Broadway, 2007), a reinvention of the tragic Greek tale of love and loss.

Late: A Cowboy Song (2f 1m) (Ohio Theater, NYC, 2003), a play about lady cowboys - of heart and mind - who ride outside the city limits of convention.

Melancholy Play (3f 3m) (Piven Theatre, Illinois, 2002), a 'sincere melodrama' following a bank teller, Tilly, and her emotional adventures.