Cleaning Rules

"Cleaning is work that becomes visible only when no one does it." - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

An original theatrical production based on documentary interviews with women working in the Czech Republic in the lowest-paid professions - ideally without a contract. Topics: domestic work, undeclared labor, care and long-distance parenting. Part dark pop, part juggling with a mop and a rag. Darkly documentary in nature, brightly colored on the cleaned surface.

Three speakers, fluid characters of women. Voices from the east and from the bottom layers of work that Czech and Western society refuses to see - but someone has to do it. Unwritten rules of care that have shaped gender for centuries. Cleaning superheroes, Eurydices waiting in the realm of shadows while the future loads. Zero-waste mothers who buy emotion and quality time for their children. Czech women are commuters, while Ukrainian women are migrants.

Some things are cleaned with water, some dry, some daily and some simply cannot be cleaned. Society, like cleaning, has its rules. And then war comes. Dust settles again on clean silent objects, turns to dust and at night speaks of how the last layer of Earth will do perfectly fine without people.