Domestic relationships, myth and theatrical transformation mingle throughout Sarah Ruhl's imaginative American plays. The Clean House centres on a Brazilian cleaner who would rather create jokes than clean, while the household around her becomes entangled in illness, love and unexpected intimacy. Eurydice retells the Orpheus myth from Eurydice's perspective, giving special weight to her relationship with her father in the underworld. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, places technological invention, marriage and female desire inside a nineteenth-century setting. Ruhl's language is lyrical, playful and openly theatrical rather than strictly realistic. Her bibliography sits most naturally across contemporary drama, feminist theatre and modern myth adaptation, with Eurydice and The Clean House offering the clearest introductions to her style. Read more Less
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