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In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)BY SARAH RUHL
Directed by Victoria Shepherd Produced by Barbara Larose and Ellen Green In late 19th century America, an enterprising young physician takes advantage of the dawn of electricity to employ a new mechanism to ease female “hysteria.” Meanwhile, his devoted but desperately unhappy wife takes charge of her own fulfillment and awakening. This daring play explores the subjugated world of an upper middle class wife and mother with humour, compassion and enlightenment. |
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Accessibility
Alumnae Theatre’s Berkeley Street entrance and the mainstage theatre are wheelchair accessible. There is a wheelchair accessible restroom on the ground floor. |
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In the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play)
"Sarah Ruhl's play "was inspired by The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction by Rachel P. Maines. Ruhl cites Maines's book, AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War (Tom McNichol) and A Social History of Wet Nursing in America (Janet Golden) as books she was reading or which influenced her when she wrote the play."
The Broadway production of In the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play) was nominated for three Tony Awards.
"Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play."
"In 2015, she published a collection of essays, 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write. Her most recent play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday (2017), premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. She currently serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. In 2018 Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship, co-authored by Max Ritvo, was published by Milkweed Editions."
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In the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play)
"Sarah Ruhl's play "was inspired by The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction by Rachel P. Maines. Ruhl cites Maines's book, AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War (Tom McNichol) and A Social History of Wet Nursing in America (Janet Golden) as books she was reading or which influenced her when she wrote the play."
The Broadway production of In the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play) was nominated for three Tony Awards.
"Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play."
"In 2015, she published a collection of essays, 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write. Her most recent play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday (2017), premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. She currently serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. In 2018 Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship, co-authored by Max Ritvo, was published by Milkweed Editions."
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