The drama and theatre of Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century.

She has won the MacArthur 'Genius Grant', been nominated for a Tony Award for 'In the Next Room,' twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - for 'The Clean House' and 'In the Next Room' - and had an entire season devoted to her work.

This study provides a clear and accessible analysis of her ouevre, giving readers an experience of her plays, not just an explanation of them.

Through a finely-grained, dimensional account of each play, readers are immersed in Ruhl's unique idiom; in themes of love and death, mourning and loss, intimacy and faith, and in inventive stagecraft to articulate consciousness onstage.