Sarah Rühle (Books)

Sarah Rühle Books

Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright whose work delves into the depths of human experience. Her plays masterfully weave the mundane aspects of everyday life with timeless mythic themes of love and war. Originally drawn to poetry, her background is evident in her rich and evocative use of language, lending her dramatic works a unique lyrical quality. Ruhl is celebrated for her vivid and adventurous theatrical creations that poignantly juxtapose the real with the mythic.

The Clean House and Other Plays

411 pages
15 hours of reading

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This volume is the first publication of Sarah Ruhl, “a playwright with a unique comic voice, perspective, and sense of theater” (Variety), who is fast leaving her mark on the American stage. In the award-winning Clean House—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 Eurydice, Ruhl’s reinvention of the tragic Greek tale of love and loss, together with a third play still to be named.Sarah 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 Theatre.