In the Next Room by Sara Ruhl

In the twilight of the Victorian age, a buzz-worthy new medical device is developed to calm women with “hysteria.” A pioneering young doctor struggles to understand this new therapy while his wife schemes to experience the treatment which sends women away from her husband's office flushed and glowing. Ruhl’s stylish comedy pulses and hums as it dispels old-fashioned notions of female sexuality, intimacy and marriage at the dawn of the age of electricity. Please note: Contains adult situations