Auditions For In the Next Room Or The Vibrator Play 8/29

Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel, Md. will hold auditions for 2 men and 5 women on Saturday, August 27 at 2pm and Monday, August 29 at 7pm. Director Michael Hartsfield will have sides available for cold readings from the script. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Publishing Company. In the Next Room or the vibrator play will run from October 28 to November 13 on Friday and Saturday evenings with two selected Sunday matinees and one Thursday evening performance. For more information, please contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557. Additional information about LMP can be found at www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

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.

This laugh out loud, provocative and touching play premiered at Berkeley Rep and subsequently marked Sarah Ruhl's Broadway debut opening at the Lyceum Theatre on November 19th, 2009.

Cast of Characters;

Dr. Givings - a man in his forties, a specialist in gynecological and hysterical disorders
Catherine Givings - His wife, a woman in her later twenties
Sabrina Daldry - His patient, a woman in her early thirties
Annie - A woman in her late thirties , Dr. Giving's midwife assistant
Leo Irving - Dr. Giving's other patient, a Englishmen in his twenties or thirties
Elizabeth - An African-American woman in her early thirties. A wet-nurse by default.
Mr. Daldry - Sabrina Daldry's husband, a man in his forties or fifties

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