‘Sarah Ruhl has come up with something rather wonderful:
a period drama that is funny, original and genuinely touching’ Daily Telegraph

In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)

by Sarah Ruhl

A Victorian Dramatic Comedy

Director: Danny Shaunessy

Late 19th Century New York State - a time of great innovation and social change.

While enthusiasm grows among the well-to-do for the new electric light bulb, Doctor Givings has been working on his own strange electrical device. His aim is to treat female hysteria, but his first patient emerges from her first session glowing and keen to return.

In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, is a provocative, touching and entertaining story about sex and intimacy. The acclaimed play, which revolves around the reverberations, physical and emotional, of the late-19th-century use of electrical gizmos to treat female “hysteria,” is often hilariously funny.