The Clean House

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The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl

The New Theatre, Dublin 2009

Directed by Aoife Connolly

- 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

Original Music 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.

Cast includes Norette Leahy, Nicola Lindsay, Neil Hogan, Niamh Clancy and Sandra Villegas.

Production Credits – Producer Aoife Connolly, Lighting Design by Sophy Bradshaw Power, Movement Co-ordinator, Sound Operator & Set Design by Andrea Scott, Stage Management by Robert Bradish, Prop Buyer & Assistant Stage Management by Lucy Peters, Assistant Prop Buyer James Fanning, Costume Design by Arsheen Qasim.

Reviews

“ Excellent production..super job for all involved..4/5 stars..definitely check out the next Bluepatch production..” – Phantom FM, The Kiosk with Nadine O’Regan