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The Jade Gate (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
'IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)' by Sarah Ruhl Here is a clip from the New York Times review The play is set in a spa town in the vicinity of New York in the late 1800s. Electricity has just begun to spread its mysterious glow in the homes of the well-to-do. It has recently been installed in the parlor of Dr. and Mrs. Givings, and more significantly in the room next door, the...
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CultureBot.org (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Friday night took us to the closing weekend of Heidi Schreck’s Creature and saturday afternoon to opening weekend of Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room or the vibrator play. fascinating juxtaposition. Both plays are about women’s awakening, the former spiritual the latter sexual. Both plays are set in gently fantastic imaginings of the past. Both plays are [...]
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ? Why, yes, it is about exactly that—but playwright Sarah Ruhl says that “a lot of it happens under a sheet,” making the comedy “very discreet.” The play, about a 19th-century doctor who treats female patients using a newfangled electrical device...
