In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) illuminates the lives of six lonely people seeking relief from a local doctor — but, despite his expertise with a strange new technology, all they really need is intimacy. It’s a tender tale that takes place in the twilight of the Victorian age, an elegant comedy lit by unexpected sparks from the approaching era of electricity, equality, science and sexuality. Les Waters directs.