Fells Point Corner Theatre Presents THE CLEAN HOUSE by Sarah Ruhl Nov 6 - Dec. 6

Sarah Ruhl's brilliant comedy revolves around Lane, a doctor who can't stand to clean her own house. Unfortunately for the busy physician, her depressed young cleaning lady, Mathilde's attitude toward dirt is as follows: "If the floor is dirty, look at the ceiling." Zoloft doesn't help, but Lane's sister, Virginia secretly takes on the job with uproarious results.

The Clean House won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to the best English-language play written by a woman, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Variety called the play a "...wondrously mad and moving work..." and The New York Times dubbed it a deeply romantic comedy... "a memorable play, imbued with a melancholy but somehow comforting philosophy: that the messes and disappointments of life are as much a part of its beauty as romantic love and chocolate ice cream, and a perfect punch line can be as sublime as the most wrenchingly lovely aria."

The Clean House is directed by Steve Goldklang, who also directed Broadway Bound, The Complete History of America, The House of Blue Leaves, Everett Beekin, Scotland Road, The Dying Gaul, (abridged), ART and Six Degrees of Separation, as well as last season's very successful The Sisters Rosensweig, all at Fell's Point Corner Theatre.

Appearing in The Clean House is a stellar cast of local veteran actors, including: Jessica Behar, John Cramer, Dianne Hood, Holly Pasciullo and Amy Jo Shapiro.
Dates: Friday, November 6th to Sunday, December 6th 2009

Performances of The Clean House are

Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

(there will also be two Thursday evening performances on Nov. 12th and Dec 3rd at 8 p.m.)

For tickets, go to www.fpct.org
ADMISSION: $17, Sunday Matinées $15, Cheap Seat Thursdays $10

 

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