| John Mitty Monday, August 20, 2012 |
(Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm)
Tickets: $28 www.stallercenter.com / 631-632-ARTS [2787]
August 20, 2012, Stony Brook NY-- Staller Center opens its 2012-2013 season with The Asylum Theatre Company in The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl’s award-winning play. In this uncommon romance and unique comedy, theater-goers meet Matilde, a Brazilian maid who hates cleaning; her employer Lane, a driven American doctor; Lane’s surgeon husband Charles; and Lane’s unhappily idle sister, among others. Performers include Catherine Zambri as Matilde, Valeri Lantz-Gefroh as Lane, Laura Ross as Virginia, Deborah Mayo as Ana and Steven Lantz-Gefroh as Charles. The play is being directed as a company collaboration.
A funny, poetic, and entertaining piece of writing, the play forces us to look at how far we are willing to go for the ones we love. It comes to Staller Center for eight performances in Theatre 2, a black box performance space.
Asylum Theatre Company was founded in 2001 by area university theatre faculty. The Asylum has produced a range of productions over the past decade including Taller, What Remains, Two Rooms, and last year’s production of The Tempest, which was honored with inclusion into the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages Festival.
The Clean House premiered in 2004 at the Yale Repertory Theatre and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to the best English-language play written by a woman.The Clean House was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2004.
“The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease, death, and dirt are among the subjects it addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, but in the more arcane sense of the word: visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in feeling, maybe a little nuts.”
—The New York Times (2004, Charles Isherwood)
“thanks to the alchemical imagination of Sarah Ruhl, the gifted author of The Clean House, this strange grab bag of ideas and images, together with some more exotic ingredients, magically coheres to form one of the finest and funniest new plays you’re likely to see in New York this season.”- The New York Times (October 31, 2006, Charles Isherwood)
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