
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by David E. Rook
January 30 through February 8, 2026
Friday & Saturday: 8:00 PM / Wednesday & Thursday: 7:30 PM / Sunday 2:30 PM
Auditions: November 4 & 6, 2025
In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and the dawn of electricity. Set in the 1880s, Dr. Givings, a scientist, unknowingly revolutionizes treatment for “hysteria” with his new invention—the vibrator. As new patients and their relationships intertwine with his own household, his wife begins to question what’s really happening in the next room, leading to revelations about love, desire, and connection.
Casting open to all races unless otherwise indicated in description.
Dr. Givings, a man in his forties, a specialist in gynecological and hysterical disorders
Catherine Givings, his wife, a woman in her late twenties
Sabrina Daldry, his patient, a woman in her early thirties
Mr. Daldry, Sabrina Daldry's husband, a man in his forties or fifties
Annie, a woman in her late thirties, Dr. Givings's midwife assistant
Elizabeth, an African-American woman in her early thirties, a wet nurse by default
Leo Irving, Dr. Givings's other patient, an Englishman in his twenties or thirties