‘The Vibrator Play’  presented by The Actors’ Repertory Theatre of Idaho (ARTI)

‘The Vibrator Play’  presented by The Actors’ Repertory Theatre of Idaho (ARTI)

March 22nd – April 13th, 2024

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 invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men): 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 what it truly means to love someone.

**Themes in the show include sexual interactions, adult language, and partial nudity. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

**Shows are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays