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Set at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), this play centres around a doctor, his wife, the patients, and their respective households through an exploration of this new invention that has the potential to change everything.
In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play explores the danger of being denied language to describe your experience, the power women wield through ownership of their sexuality, and the pursuit of freedom through the destruction of binaries. By pulling this story to a contemporary realm, our production challenges how much progress has actually been made since the notoriously prudish Victorian era. In this production we imagine a new world order that demolishes extant power structures provoking the question: where do we go from here?
Presented by RedWit Theatre in the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto
In The Next Room
(or the Vibrator Play)
Playwright – Sarah Ruhl
Director – Mallory Fisher
Intimacy Director – Scott Emerson Moyle
Catherine Givings – Hannah Wayne-Phillips
Sabrina Daldry – Allison Shea Reed
Dr. Givings – Brian Haight
Elizabeth – Asha James
Annie – Krystina Bojanowski
Mr. Daldry – Tristan Claxton
Leo Irving – Sepehr Reybod
2018-12-06
Toronto: RedWit Theatre presents "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)" January 16-27, 2019