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The Clean House

Ella Stevens as Lane
March 2023
Written By Sarah Ruhl 
at Northwestern’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, The Wallis Theatre
Directed by Francesca Patrón (Northwestern MFA Directing Thesis)

“The Clean House,” by prolific playwright Sarah Ruhl, takes us into a world of rich magical realism that explores love, family, and death.  Lane, a career-oriented doctor, hires a comedian from Brazil to keep her pristine house clean. As their lives, cultures, and families begin to intertwine, chaos ensues, and love blooms. This funny, tender play has poetry, stand-up comedy, magical realism, absurdism, myth, and a soaring sense of romance.













Running on Cargo