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May
22
2015

In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play

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When: Friday, May 22, 2015
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM CT

Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Josephine Louis Theater, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: General Public $25.00; Senior Citizens (62 and over) $22.00; NU Faculty/Staff, Educators $22.00; Full-Time Students $10.00; NU Students (advance purchase only) $5.00

Contact: Joel Solari   (847) 467-2426

Group: Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

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: 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 how the doctor’s radical new therapy affects the entire household. This electrifying comedy questions the nature of relationships and intimacy, and what it really means to seek connection.

May 15 – 24 | Josephine Louis Theater
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Lauren Shouse

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