The Clean House

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Event The Clean House
Venue Circa One, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand
First Date 13 June 2009
Last Date 11 July 2009
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Lane, a doctor, has a Brazilian maid who is bent on finding the perfect joke and does not want to clean. Maid Matilda feels dirty if she has not laughed for a while. She feels sad if she cleans. Enter Lane's sister, Virginia, whose motto is: 'If it were not for dust I think I would die.' Virginia and Matilda make a secret arrangement in which Virginia cleans and Matilda … works on her jokes. Complications arise when Lane's husband, a surgeon, leaves her for a beguiling masectomy patient.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Comedy
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Michele Amas Actor Virginia
Erin Banks Actor Matilde
Jude Gibson Actor Lane
Alan Lovell Actor
Jane Waddell Actor
Paul Jenden Costume Designer
Susan Wilson Director
Ulli Briese Lighting Designer
Sarah Ruhl Playwright
John Hodgkins Set Designer
Text Nationality United States of America
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 195630