Amanda Keating

2 W, 4 M.

It’s the end of Wyman Public School as we know it, and five lost souls are hired to clean it out : scraping gum off the desks, washing the floors with whatever old cleaning supplies they have around, and locking it up when they’re done. Ken, Ackley, Meg, Cole, and Roger come together to get the job done, but when Helen appears in Wyman – with her dog in her Subaru and a fire for the school in her heart – the group faces questions they never expected to ask, with people they never expected to ask them with. Armed with an old copy of the Bhagavad-Gita, a nonstop supply of coffee, and a love of place so deep nothing can survive it, the cleanup crew does the duty they set out to do, and renounces everything else along the way.

The Cleanup Crew was read as part of EST/Youngblood's Bloodworks series in May 2016.

EST/Youngblood

dir. Molly Clifford
May 2016

Meg……...........................................................……Lizzie Fox
Ken………...........................................…………..Graeme Gillis
Ackley.............................................................Brian Quijada
Cole.....................................................................Will Dagger
Roger....................................................J. Stephen Brantley
Helen...................................................................Helen Coxe

Stage Directions..........................................Sarah Chalfie