In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)

Directed by Mary Beth Easley
A MainStage Production

Brooklyn College’s Theatre Department’s opening salvo this season proves to be a most intriguing offering. It’s 1880s, upstate New York. For a young wife, the key to secrets dawning in this Age of Electricity seem locked in the next room, where her physician husband treats hysteria-afflicted patients. In this whimsical comedy, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl unveils our desire for connectedness, examining the perils of progress across boundaries of gender, class, and race.