In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play

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.--P. [4] of cover.