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ACT proudly presents the Hong Kong
Premiere of In the Next Room * or The Vibrator Play * * This play is strictly for audiences over 18 only. A new comedy
play by Sarah Ruhl Directed by
Ahmed El-Alfy Limited Seating Left: Friday and Saturday
Nights Sold Out |
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A fanciful but compassionate consideration of the treatment, and
the mistreatment, of women in the late 19th century, this spirited and
stimulating (sorry) new comedy from one of America's brightest young
playwrights Sarah Ruhl. The play is set in a spa town in the vicinity of the United
States in the late 1800s. Electricity has just begun to spread its mysterious
glow in the homes of the well-to-do. It has recently been installed in the
parlor of Dr. and Mrs. Givings, and more
significantly in the room next door, the doctor’s “operating theater,” where
he practices gynecology and the treatment of “hysteria” using that strange
electric-powered box. Comical though the play’s depiction of Dr. Givings’s
methods might seem, it is based on historical fact.
The use of primitive vibrators to treat women suffering from a variety of
psychological ailments referred to as hysteria is well documented. But Ms. Ruhl’s play is hardly intended as an elaborate dirty joke
at the expense of the medical profession. Her real subject is the fundamental
absence of sympathy and understanding between women and the men whose rules
they had to live by for so long, and the suspicion and fear surrounding
female sexuality and even female fertility. |
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Performance Dates Wednesday March 9 8:00pm Thursday March 10 8:00pm
Saturday March 12 Matinee Show 3:00pm
Tickets URBTIX
Tel 2111 5999 $220 for adults, $180 for concession
holders. ** This play is strictly for
audiences over 18 years old. Performance Venue McAulay Studio Theatre Hong Kong Arts Centre 2 Harbour
Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong |
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