In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Chuck Ketter
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About the event
Winner of the 2010 Will Glickman Award for Best New Play to premiere in the Bay Area, In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy and electricity. Set in the 1880's at the dawn of the age of electricty and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat "hysterical" women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household.