In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play)

Muncie Civic Theatre presentsIn the Next Room or The Vibrator Play in the Studio Theatre, September 23rd-24th, 30th-October 2nd & 7th-8th. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00pm and the Sunday matinee on October 2nd is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10 for all ages.

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 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.

Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Bill Wilkison