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A review by ponch22
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
4.0
Read this because a local playhouse is doing this this year and I wanted to prepare for the auditions. Unfortunately, I could have looked at the character list in the front of the book and realized that the one 40-50-year-old man was out of my wheelhouse.
Still glad I read it. It's a good play able to be performed in a small space with limited set. There are some scene changes, but as I read it I imagined the different settings could easily be indicated with lighting and sound. The scenes are often very short, so I imagine costuming would have to be pretty simplistic as well (days often pass between scenes and I believe realistic costumes would create some very hectic scene changes).
The play's central character, Matilde, is a British cleaning lady whose parents both died laughing. She spends most of the play trying to create the funniest joke in the world and I was a little sad the play didn't deliver with what it ended up being (although I'm sure no matter what [a:Sarah Ruhl|81678|Sarah Ruhl|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66-2a9d702c2a0f483c9f7dd119cc28a9a7.jpg] would have written would have disappointed). Quick read if you have a few hours to kill.
Still glad I read it. It's a good play able to be performed in a small space with limited set. There are some scene changes, but as I read it I imagined the different settings could easily be indicated with lighting and sound. The scenes are often very short, so I imagine costuming would have to be pretty simplistic as well (days often pass between scenes and I believe realistic costumes would create some very hectic scene changes).
The play's central character, Matilde, is a British cleaning lady whose parents both died laughing. She spends most of the play trying to create the funniest joke in the world and I was a little sad the play didn't deliver with what it ended up being (although I'm sure no matter what [a:Sarah Ruhl|81678|Sarah Ruhl|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66-2a9d702c2a0f483c9f7dd119cc28a9a7.jpg] would have written would have disappointed). Quick read if you have a few hours to kill.