"In actuality, there's probably no Shakespeare that Woman's Will wouldn't do well...Woman's Will is no-nonsense theatre brimming with intelligence and passion." - Chad Jones,
Oakland Tribune

Mathilde, recently orphaned due to a very funny joke, helps two doctors and a mistress put their houses in order in this heartbreakingly sweet take on American ways of life.
2006 MacArthur Fellow Ruhl is also the author of Eurydice, which played to acclaim at Berkeley Rep in 2004 and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), appearing there January - March 2009. The Clean House won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 and was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist.