The Clean House (2008)
Produced by
Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
Director: Alisa Palmer
Venue
Run
February 11th, 2008 – March 8th, 2008
Synopsis
Matilde, the funniest person in Brazil, loves to laugh and hates to clean. Unhappily working as a maid in a doctor’s house, she strives to come up with the perfect joke. This play about cleaning and mortality, uses the eccentric lives of the doctor’s family to examine obsession, love at first sight, and the idea that you could actually laugh so hard, you’d die. (canstage.com)
Cast
| Seana McKenna | Lane |
| Fiona Reid | Virginia |
| Joseph Ziegler | Charles / A Man |
| Nicola Correia-Damude | Matilde |
| Mary Ann McDonald | Ana / Matilde's Mother |
Creative Team
| Sarah Ruhl | Playwright |
| Alisa Palmer | Director |
| Judith Bowden | Set Designer |
| Judith Bowden | Costume Designer |
| Kevin Lamotte | Lighting Designer |
| John Gzowski | Composition |
| John Gzowski | Sound Designer |
| Rose Plotek | Assistant Director |
Production
| Nancy Dryden | Stage Manager |
| Janet Gregor | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Amy Wright | Movement Consultant |
Staff
| Alistair Hepburn | Director of Production |
| Chris Carlton | Technical Director |
| Stephanie Ripley | Assistant Technical Director |
| Mary Spyrakis | Head of Properties |
| William Sovie | Senior Props Builder |
| Shelley Heebner | Props Builder |
| Lokki Ma | Metcalf Props Intern |
| Barbara E. Singer | Head of Wardrobe |
| Jennifer Snowsill | Costume Buyer |
| Ina Kerklaan | Cutter |
| Gulay Cokgezen | First Hand |
| Kate Day | Assistant Head of Wardrobe |
| Chris Root | Head Electrician |
| Reg Taylor | Head Carpenter |
| Douglas Parker | Property Master |
| Aaron Hanna | Sound Operator |
| Tim Flawn | Assistant Electrician |
| Rob Rea | Flyman |
