Victorian era’s shown in new light in witty ‘Room’ by Sexual foreplay

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:02:08 -0400

Victorian era’s shown in new light in witty ‘Room’

by Sexual foreplay @ Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:02:08 -0400
Sarah Ruhl has one of the smartest, quirkiest, most mischievous and poetic minds around. And she has put that mind to extraordinarily good use in “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play,” a work whose title easily attracts attention.Clearly, a bit of foreplay is in order here, and it comes in the form of science, history AND sex. Ruhl has set her play — now in its Chicago debut in director Sandy ...