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In the Next Room: THE VIBRATOR PLAY by Sarah Ruhl
MUST CLOSE SEPTEMBER 14
Final performances
Sat 9/13 @ 8 pm
Sun 9/14 @ 7 pm
Tony Nominee for Best Play 2010!
Winner! 2010 Will Glickman Award for Best New Play to Premiere in the Bay Area!
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity.
In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating "hysteria" in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator.
Adjacent to the doctor's laboratory, his wife tries to tends to their late-in-life newborn daughterand wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new "hysterical" patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor's home, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage, and what it truly means to love someone.
"Insightful, fresh and funny, the play is as rich in thought as it is in feeling...one of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent years...In the Next Room is a true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys but for adults with open hearts and minds." - The New York Times
"A play that's smart, delicate and very, very funny!" - New York Post
"If Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde had decided to collaborate on a post-modern drawing-room comedy, the hotsy-totsy twosome surely would have turned out something very much like Sarah Ruhl's genuinely hysterical new work" - TheatreMania
"Sarah Ruhl, whose previous work I execrated, has written a smart, charming, iridescently funny-serious jewel...As Ruhl traces it with wit and insight, and without the slightest prurience, the birth of this new era gives rise to colorful events, astute psychological revelations and endearingly apt dialogue." - Bloomberg
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LocationCapoeira Mandinga Studio
4137 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 14 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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