In the Next Room

(or the vibrator play)

By Sarah Ruhl

A provocative, funny, touching and marvelously entertaining story set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity, when a young doctor invents a new clinical device to treat female hysteria -- the vibrator. The only woman whose problem is not helped by the doctor is his own wife, who longs to connect with him but not electrically. Nominated for three 2010 Tony Awards.