Blackfriars Theatre presents IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY

Name: Blackfriars Theatre presents IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY
Start: 2025-10-24T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-24T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 795 E Main St, Rochester, NY, United States, New York 14605

Schedule

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

795 E Main St, Rochester, NY, United States, New York 14605 | Rochester, NY

IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)
WHO ARE THE PLAYERS?
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Patricia Lewis Browne
WHAT'S THE DEAL?
“Smart, delicate and very, very funny!” —The New York Post
“The playwright mines her subject for suitably bawdy humor without resorting to vulgarity. But what really gives the work its distinction is its sensitive exploration of the physical and emotional repression suffered by the women of the era, which has yet to disappear entirely… The play beautifully balances its humor and pathos.” — The Hollywood Reporter
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of 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 young and energetic wife Catherine tries to tend to their newborn daughter and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new “hysterical” patient, Sabrina, 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.