“In The Next Room:<br> or the vibrator play”
Acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl turned a strange episode of medical history — the use, by doctors, of electric vibrators to treat women for emotional problems – into a play, now on Broadway. Ruhl was interested in “anything to do with the 19th century that you wouldn’t read in the pages of Charlotte Bronte.”
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