‘Within the Subsequent Room (or The Vibrator Play),’ a manufacturing about Victorian hysteria, begins Friday at The Weekend Theater

‘Within the Subsequent Room (or The Vibrator Play)’
FRIDAY 12/2-SUNDAY 12/18. The Weekend Theater. 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Solar. $18-$20.

The staging of “Within the Subsequent Room (or The Vibrator Play)” is straightforward, tailor made for a modest venue like The Weekend Theater. Two adjoining rooms in an Eighties Victorian dwelling, a health care provider’s workplace and the neighboring parlor, stay seen to the viewers all through the whole lot of the play. Whereas Dr. Givings experiments with a brand new electrical invention designed to remedy hysteria, an early approximation of the vibrator, his spouse, Catherine, takes care of their new child daughter only a wall away, eavesdropping with jealousy and confusion whereas struggling to breastfeed. As extra sufferers, their spouses, a midwife and a moist nurse enter the home, each attainable association of want, pleasure and partnership is given an opportunity within the highlight. An almost-Shakespearean intuition for compulsive coupling abounds. Written by Sarah Ruhl, winner of the 2006 MacArthur Genius Grant, this play was nominated for 3 Tonys.

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