TICKETS ON SALE FOR FRINGE’S COLLECTED STORIES

Fringe Theater presents the quirky comedy The Clean House, March 20 – 30, in the Parish Hall of St Paul’s Episcopal Church.

The Pulitzer Prize nominated play, written by contemporary American playwright Sara Ruhl, takes place in “metaphysical Connecticut.” It is a concoction of real and surreal story lines that take the audience on a fantastical journey that searches for meaning among life’s messier moments.

Lane, an accomplished physician, wants her house clean. Lane’s Brazilian maid wants to write jokes. Lane’s surgeon husband wants to live happily-ever-after with his dying patient. Lane’s sister Virginia wants to clean up all the mess everyone is making, if only they would let her!

“It’s hard to put The Clean House tidily into a genre,” says the show’s director, Rebecca Tomlinson. “It’s an unexpected mix of realism and fantasy, minimalism and spectacle.”

The ensemble of diverse and whacky characters drives the play’s action which stops periodically to allow the characters to say things directly to the audience. The play twists and turns through betrayal, loss, illness, and death yet manages to tell an unexpectedly life-affirming and funny story. It is, after all, laughter that sustains us through the muck, mire, and mess of our lives.

The New York Times called the NYC premiere of the play “visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in feeling, and maybe a little nuts.”

“I was drawn to the play’s journey toward forgiveness,” Rebecca shares.  “It resonated with me. I think it will resonate with the audience, too.”

The cast features Wende Shoer as Lane, Diane May as her sister, Francesca Silva as the maid, Tim Dahms as Lane’s husband, and Camille Toler as his soulmate.

The Clean House runs March 20 – 30 at 7pm in the Parish Hall of St Paul’s Episcopal Church, which is located at 401 Duval Street. (The Parish Hall sits at the back of the property.) Tickets are $35 general admission and $45 reserved seating. Seating is limited. Tickets are available online at www.fringetheater.org or by calling 305-731-0581.

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