St James; Royal Court; Covent Garden, LondonPeople are whooping at Sarah Ruhl's play. Well, of course: at the centre of the plot is a vibrator. Set in New York in the 1880s, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) tells through fictional lives the extraordinary true tale of how the cluster of symptoms dubbed "hysteria" in women was treated when electricity became available. To relieve female "congestion", doctors sti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on November 30, 2013