Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play. In 2020, she adapted her play Eurydice into the libretto for Matthew Aucoin’s opera of the same name. Eurydice was nominated for Best Opera Recording at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
IN TIBET
Sarah Ruhl
In Tibet it is said that when
the sunlight comes in
from outdoors, touching the wood
on your floor: it is holy
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THE SUN IN QUARANTINE
Sarah Ruhl
My feet unaccustomed to grass
my eyes unaccustomed to sky
I try to be a sun for the three planets
who are my children
I borrow some of their warmth
in order to give it back to them