The Clean House
A must see. "Quirky" doesn't describe Sarah Ruhl's characters in this 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist. And "magic realism" doesn't quite cover the style, which blends the fantastic and the gruesome. Put it this way: Matilde (who's trying to write the perfect joke) is young enough to have good skin, but old enough to worry if her skin's still good. She's in transition. So are Ana, Lane, Charles, and Virginia, and so, says the playwright, is life itself. At New Village Arts, director Claudio Raygoza must have a sixth sense about the material, since he honors the magical and the mad, the grief and the elation, and yokes them with humor and compassion. The cast is tops. And Brian Redfern's nearly all-white set's so classy that only someone with Virginia's "dirt fetish" would want to keep it clean. And surely not Matilde, though she was hired to be the maid.
Critic's Pick.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, October 26, 2014
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 3pm & 8pm |