In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
by Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Jen Katz

February 22 – March 16
Matinees: March 3 and 10 at 2pm

“The company’s production does full credit to this intellectually rich, profoundly entertaining show.” – Maryland Theatre Guide
“Don’t miss out on this thrilling stage engagement!” – TheatreBloom

A comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity, In the Next Room is set in the 1880s at the dawn of the electrical age. 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.

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Producer – Pam Burks

Cast:
Dr. Givings – Matt Bannister
Catherine Givings – Emily Gilson
Sabrina Daldry – Juliet Lloyd
Dick Daldry – Jim Adams
Annie – Erica Smith
Elizabeth – Jacqueline Youm
Leo Irving – Joshuah Laird

Production Team:
Artistic Liaison – Erin Bone Steele
Stage Manager – Kristyn Lue
Assistant Stage Manager/Props – Jennifer Dorsey
Set Designer – Jeff Asjes
Master Carpenter – Nicholas Temple
Lighting Designer – Steve Deming
Sound Designer – Rich Frangiamore
Costume Designer – Mary Wakefield
Intimacy Coach – Christine Hurst
Dramaturg – Meg Williams