The Clean House
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 30, 2006
Closed Jan 28, 2007
Opened Oct 30, 2006
Closed Jan 28, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Lincoln Center Theater presents Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House, directed by Bill Rauch. The cast features Vanessa Aspillaga, Blair Brown, Jill Clayburgh, John Dossett, and Concetta Tomei.
Lane, a high powered-doctor, hires Matilde, a young Brazilian woman who hates to clean, as her housekeeper. Eventually, Lane's sister Virginia takes on the job, and Matilde concentrates on her true ambition: crafting the world's most perfect joke. Meanwhile, Lane's husband, Charles, leaves her for Anna, a free-spirited older woman.
Ruhl won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Clean House; the play debuted at Yale Repertory Theatre, where it was directed by Rauch.
Added Performannce: Sunday - November 26 @ 7pm
Time Change: Sunday - November 26 @ 2pm
No Performance: Thursday - November 23 @ 8pm
PLEASE NOTE: The production will take a two week layoff for the holidays beginning on Monday, December 18 and will resume performances on Tuesday, January 2.
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Life can be messy. And messy can be okay. That's the life lesson learned by sisters Lane (Blair Brown) and Virginia (Jill Clayburgh) in Sarah Ruhl's thoroughly engaging, quasi-absurdist comedy The Clean House, which is getting its long-overdue New York debut at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater in a highly polished production by Bill Rauch, who directed the show's world premiere at Yale Rep in 2004.
That the show has finally hit Gotham this fall is a good thing, but not necessarily for Ruhl. It arrives not just as a former Pulitzer Prize finalist, but mere weeks after Ruhl was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant. Unfortunately, these heightened expectations may cause some audience mem[...]