Paul Hickey, Katie Lightfoot Set for UK Premiere of In the Next Room

Laurence Boswell will direct the UK Premiere of In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl, the concluding play in the Ustinov Studio’s American Season, at the Theatre Royal Bath, May 10-June 9.

In a spa town in New York in the late 19th century enthusiasm for the new electric light bulb is spreading through the homes of the well-to-do citizens. Young Dr Givings is obsessed with the marvels of technology and has been working with a handy new device, a strange electric powered box set up in his operating theatre to treat female hysteria.

The cast features Paul Hickey (Dr. Givings) and Katie Lightfoot (Catherine Givings), with Rakie Ayola, Edward Bennett, Tom Hodgkins, Flora Montgomery, and Lucy Robinson.

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