By Sarah Ruhl
“Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively constant in its delirious extra. The fresh condo shines.”—New Haven Advocate
“The fresh home is no longer, whatsoever, a conventional boy-meets-girl tale. in truth affliction, dying, and grime are one of the matters it addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, yet within the extra arcane experience of the be aware: visionary, tinged with delusion, extravagant in feeling, probably a bit nuts.”—The manhattan Times
“Touching, creative, invigoratingly compact, and luminously liquid, Eurydice reframes the traditional delusion of ill-fated like to concentration no longer at the bereaved musician yet on his lifeless bride—and on her fight with love past the grave.”—San Francisco Chronicle
This quantity is the 1st book of Sarah Ruhl, “a playwright with a different comedian voice, standpoint, and feel of theater” (Variety), who's quick leaving her mark at the American degree. within the award-winning fresh House—a play of unusual romance and unusual comedy—a maid who hates cleansing goals approximately growing the ideal funny story, whereas a physician who treats melanoma leaves his center inside of one in every of his sufferers. This quantity additionally comprises Eurydice, Ruhl’s reinvention of the tragic Greek story of affection and loss, including a 3rd play nonetheless to be named.
Sarah Ruhl acquired the celebrated Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play The fresh residence, which has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and Woolly sizeable Theatre corporation in Washington, DC. Her play Eurydice has been produced at Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Contents:
The fresh House
Late: A Cowboy Song
Melancholy Play
Eurydice
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Virginia No underwear in a hospital? It’s unsanitary. matilde Or—maybe he just likes women’s underwear. He might try them on. virginia Charles? No! matilde It’s possible. They do. Lane enters. Virginia quickly puts down the iron and sits. Matilde stands and begins to iron badly. Virginia hides the red underwear. lane (To Virginia) What are you doing here? virginia Nothing. How was work? Lane moves to the kitchen. Where are you going? lane I’m going in the other room to shoot myself. virginia You’re joking, right?
Virginia comes upon a pair of women’s red underwear. virginia My God! matilde Oh . . No— (As in—he wouldn’t dare) virginia No. matilde But— (As in—he might dare) virginia Do you think—here—in the house? matilde Maybe a park. I bet he puts them in his pocket, afterwards, and forgets, because he’s so happy. And then she’s walking around for the day, with no underwear, and you know what? She probably likes it. virginia I hope it’s not a nurse. It’s such a cliché. Sarah Ruhl matilde If she’s a nurse, they would pass each other in the hospital, and she would say: hello, Doctor.
It’s just that—I don’t like to clean houses. I think it makes me sad. virginia You don’t like to clean houses. matilde No. virginia But that’s so simple! matilde Yes. virginia Why don’t you like to clean? When I was a child I thought: if the floor is dirty, look at the ceiling. It is always clean. virginia I like cleaning. matilde You do? Why? virginia It clears my head. The Clean House matilde So it is, for you, a religious practice? virginia No. It’s just that: cleaning my house—makes me feel clean.