6:00am

Fri February 3, 2012
Kentucky Arts and Culture

"The Clean House" by Actors Guild "Ruhls"

Credit Rich Copley / Lexington Herald Leader
In a scene from The Clean House, Charles (Mark Callahan) performs highly stylized surgery on his lover, Ana (Missy Johnston), with an assistant (Suraya Shalash). The comedy is presented by Actors Guild of Lexington.

Actors Guild of Lexington this weekend opens a play by Sarah Ruhl called “The Clean House.” Ruhl’s a hot contemporary playwright who wrote “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” which was staged last year by the Actors’ Guild.   Also, Actors Theatre of Louisville has a production of her “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play” on stage right now.  “Here Come the Mummies,” who built a central Kentucky following during the World Equestrian Games, return Friday evening to Lexington. Plus, there’s a bunch of string music this weekend in Lexington, Clay City and elsewhere.  With a preview is Rich Copley who’s an arts and culture reporter with the Lexington Herald Leader.