| In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play Samuel French A Edition Contributor(s): Ruhl, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0573698139 ISBN-13: 9780573698132 Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Drama | Women Authors - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 812.6 |
| LCCN: 2012533833 |
| Physical Information: 0.18" H x 5" W x 8" (0.21 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Characters: 3m, 4f / Interior In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently |