Spring Play: In the Room Next Door or The Vibrator Play

All shows at 7:30 p.m. in the Decker Theatre

Clark Students, Faculty and Staff: Free with ID
General admissions: $12.00
Senior Citizens (60+): $10.00

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.

Learn more: https://www.clark.edu/academics/programs/dept/theatre/season.php

You may also like the following events from Clark College -- Vancouver, Washington:

• Next Wednesday, 18th June, 06:30 pm, Clark College Commencement 2025 in Salmon Creek

Also check out other Arts events in Vancouver, Theatre events in Vancouver, Comedy events in Vancouver.