In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

Description

In a 1800s New York spa town, the birth of electricity has struck a chord with the affluent locals. The young entrepreneurial Dr Givings has installed a new 'operating theatre' for the practice of gynaecology and the treatment of his 'hysteria' patients'. A provocative, funny, touching and marvelously entertaining story about a doctor and his wild obsessions with the marvels of 'vibrator' technology. The play premiered in New York at the Berkley Repertory Theatre in 2009, followed by a Broadway premiere presented by Lincoln Center Theater in 2010. It was nominated for three Tony awards including Best Play. The play has since been produced across the USA and as far afield as Peru and Australia. It premiered in the UK in 2012, at Bath Theatre Royal.

Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play "The Clean House," which has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Her play Eurydice has been produced at Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory

'A true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys; but for adults with open hearts and minds.' New York Times 'Amid the bawdy jokes and the double entendres is a brilliant, funny, tragic play' Washingtonian