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Set in the 1880s, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play centers on a doctor and his wife whose household is upended by the doctor’s experimental therapy as inventor of a new device.

This show is closed.

Performances ended on Jan. 10, 2010.

About the Show

Previews: Oct 22, 2009 • Opening: Nov 19, 2009 • Closing: Jan 10, 2010

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Story

What Is the Story of In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play?
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 tries to tend to their newborn daughter—and 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.

Broadway Plays Comedy

"“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

Charles Isherwood

""A compelling yarn with engaging characters who evolve. When Cerveris and Benanti enter the winter garden and disrobe for the play’s final Edenic sequence, [playwright Ruhl] achieves an unforced aura of hopeful wonder.""

Time Out New York

David Cote

Venue

Lyceum Theatre
149 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
Hearing Assistance
Provided by Sound Associates.
Wheelchair Access
Theater is not completely wheelchair accessible. There are no steps into the theater from the sidewalk, but there are steps within theater.
Elevators and Escalators
This theater does not have elevators or escalators.
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