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In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)

Penn Theatre Arts Program Performance

November 20 – 23, 2013
Bruce Montgomery Theatre
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Penn's Theatre Arts Program’s first production of its 2013-2014 season is In the Next Room, by Sarah Ruhl, one of America’s most imaginative, theatrically inventive and intellectually stimulating playwrights working today. Subtitled Or the Vibrator Play, Ruhl sets her story in the genteel Victorian world of 1880’s New York, a world about to be changed utterly with the arrival of modern scientific, industrial and electrical power. The play deals with the introduction of the vibrator into American medical culture as an instrument for “healing” sexual disfunction, hysteria and neurasthenia in women (also in men). With unsparing honesty and great humor, but without condescension, Ruhl dramatizes very personal issues: gender discrimination, the relationship between sexual and emotional intimacy and the link between the body and personal identity. Her characters are deeply human, with rich and complex emotional lives, and engaged in profound journeys of discovery, of themselves and of their relationships with spouses, lovers and friends. In the Next Room offers student actors, designers and audiences an unmatchable theatrical experience. This production is directed by Theatre Arts faculty member Dr. James F. Schlatter.
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