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Cleaners, The

  • Lindsay Joy
  • Short Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573706134

Lower East Side. Right now. It's Rita and Jerry's job to clean up the stuff no one else will: death.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Lower East Side. Right now. It's Rita and Jerry's job to clean up the stuff no one else will: death.

Published in the Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 41st Series.

Premiere Production: The Cleaners premiered at the 41st Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in New York City in August 2016 under the direction of Michael Padden.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Latino Actor(s)

  • JERRY - 30's, of Italian descent. Sweet, awkward, abrupt. Grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
    RITA - 30's, of Puerto Rican descent. Tough, fragile, extremely proud, and in a bad way financially. Also grew up in the Lower East Side.