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In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is a play by Sarah Ruhl. It concerns the early history of the vibrator when doctors used it as a clinical device to bring women to orgasm as treatment for hysteria. Other themes include Victorian ignorance of female sexual desire motherhood breastfeeding and jealousy. The play was nominated for three 2010 Tony Awards.

author
Sarah Ruhl
IBDB ID
484385
premiere date
2009-02-05
premiere place
Berkeley California, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
premiere year
2009-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
A prosperous spa town outside of New York City. The dawn of the age of electricity and after the Civil War.

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