<cite>In the Next Room</cite> will elicit paroxysms of mirth, sadness, by Elysa Gardner

Sarah Ruhl's <cite>In the Next Room or the vibrator play</cite>, which opened Thursday at the Lyceum Theatre, is set in the 1880s outside New York City, in the home of an impeccably gracious physician who has grown fond of the aforementioned gadget&mdash;as a therapeutic device. He uses it on hysterics, as emotionally disturbed women were known in that era, to produce healing, um, "paroxysms."

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