Bluepatch Productions Presents;
 
THE IRISH PREMIERE OF
 
THE CLEAN HOUSE by SARAH RUHL
Directed by Aoife Connolly

The New Theatre, 43 East Essex St., Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Booking 01 670 3361 or email info@thenewtheatre.com

Opens Tuesday 10th of November – Saturday 21st of November
Preview Monday 9th 
Saturday Matinees at 3pm
Ticket Prices 15/12 Euros
 

- A WHIMSICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY-
 

Winner of the Susan Blackburn Award and A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2005
 

 When married doctors Charles and Lane hire stand – up comic Matilde as their live in maid, they get anything but a clean house. It may look spotless, but it soon fills up with the dirty laundry of Charles’s affair with an older woman, Lane’s depression, her sister Virginia’s identity crisis and Matilde’s struggle to find the perfect joke in a house full of dark secrets
 

New York Times dubbed it a deeply romantic comedy,  “…visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in feeling , maybe a little nuts”
 
 Variety Magazine called this a tender funny play  “….screwy poetry and penetrating wisdom, oddball humour, deadpan soap, operatic arias, fantasy, spirituality and a soaring sense of romance. Most of all, it has tremendous passion”
 
 Washington Post wrote ” As with most original voices, it takes a while to tune into Ruhl’s wavelength. Once connected, though, you commune warmly with her funny and compassionate sense of life’s metamorphosing rewards and punishments.”
 

 The Clean House is Bluepatch’s third production to date, it follows their sold out debut earlier this year of Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan in The New Theatre and a site specific production of Medea Redux in Bodytonicmusic’s Bernard Shaw Beer Garden which also played in this years Galway Theatre Festival.

Original Music is by Aisling Quinn- Hotpress have compared her “winning vocal” style to that of Kate Bush and have applauded her for providing something less predictable to the singer/songwriter genre. Aisling has recently supported Albert Niland and Roesy on their Irish tour.