Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and
frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century.
Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I
Don't Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant
and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, been nominated
for a Tony Award for In the Next Room or the vibrator play and
twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Clean House
and In the Next Room. Ruhl is a writer unafraid of the soul. She
writes not about "this or that issue," but "about being," creating
plays that ask "big questions about death, love, and how we should
treat each other in this lifetime." In this volume, Amy Muse
situates Ruhl as an artist-thinker and organizes her work around
its artistic and ethical concerns. Through a finely-grained account
of each play, readers are guided through Ruhl's early influences,
the themes of intimacy, transcendence, and communion, and her
inventive stagecraft to dramatize "moments of being" onstage.
Enriched by essays from scholars Jill Stevenson, Thomas Butler, and
Christina Dokou, an interview with directors Sarah Rasmussen and
Hayley Finn, and a chronology of Ruhl's life and work, this is a
companionable guide for students of American drama and theatre
studies. Amy Muse specializes in dramatic literature and
performance studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
Minnesota, where she is Associate Professor and Chair of the
English Department. She is the author of "Sarah Ruhl's Sex Ed for
Grownups" (Text & Presentation 2013) and essays on Romantic
drama, intimate theatre, female Hamlets, and travel in Romantic
Circles, Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture &
Criticism, Frontiers, and other journals. METHUEN DRAMA CRITICAL
COMPANIONS Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan (National University of
Ireland, Galway) and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount
University, USA)
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