{"product_id":"the-clean-house-and-other-plays-paperback","title":"The Clean House and Other Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Ruhl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. \u003cem\u003eThe Clean House \u003c\/em\u003eshines.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew Haven Advocate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \"\u003cem\u003eThe Clean House \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact, and luminously liquid, \u003cem\u003eEurydice \u003c\/em\u003ereframes 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.\"--\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e  This volume is the first publication of Sarah Ruhl, \"a playwright with a unique comic voice, perspective, and sense of theater\" (\u003cem\u003eVariety\u003c\/em\u003e), who is fast leaving her mark on the American stage. In the award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Clean House\u003c\/em\u003e--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 \u003cem\u003eEurydice\u003c\/em\u003e, Ruhl's reinvention of the tragic Greek tale of love and loss, \u003cem\u003eLate: A Cowboy Song\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMelancholy Play\u003c\/em\u003e.  \u003cstrong\u003eSarah Ruhl\u003c\/strong\u003e received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play \u003cem\u003eThe Clean House\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eEurydice\u003c\/em\u003e has been produced at Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 411\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Literary Award (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771595292960,"sku":"9781559362665","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2c5a1815eb9989555a27b43579b42c34.webp?v=1780389090","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-clean-house-and-other-plays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}