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description: Best Broadway Play Of 2009 ... Ruhl Has Defied Gender And Genre Orthodoxy To Give Us A Hilarious And Moving Meditation On The Many Factors That Complicate Communication Between (and Within) The Sexes.--elysa Gardner, Usa Today. In The Next Room Is Ruhl's Best Play To Date. Her Play-writing Is Inspired.--john Lahr, New Yorker. Ruhl Is One Of The Country's Brightest Playwrights. In The Next Room Is A True Novelty: A Sex Comedy Designed For Adults With Open Hearts And Minds. Insightful, Fresh And Funny, The Play Is As Rich In Thought As It Is In Feeling.--charles Isherwood, New York Times. It's Safe To Say That In The Next Room Goes Where No Broad-way Show Has Gone Before. Ruhl Presents Something A Lot More Daring Than Nudity: Women's Discovery Of Their Own Bodies And Their Own Pleasure ... A Play That's Smart, Delicate And Very, Very Funny.--elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post. Ruhl Has Written A Smart, Charming, Iridescently Funny-serious Jewel.--john Simon, Bloomberg News/bloomberg.com. A Breathtakingly Inventive Addition To Ruhl's Singular Body Of Work.--charles Mcnulty, Los Angeles Times. In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play Hovers At The Dawn Of Electricity When Enthusiasm For The Light Bulb Gave Rise To A Handy New Instrument To Treat Female Hysteria. Ruhl, With Her Singular Theatrical Lyricism, Has Crafted A Masterful New Comedy, Which Went On To Become A Pulitzer Prize Finalist And Tony Award Nominee For Best Play. Sarah Ruhl's Plays Include, The Clean House (finalist For The Pulitzer Prize And Recipient Of The Susan Smith Blackburn Award); Dead Man's Cell Phone (helen Hayes Award For Best New Play); Passion Play (kennedy Center's Fourth Freedom Forum Play-writing Award); Eurydice; Melancholy Play; Late: A Cowboy Song And Orlando. She Is A Recipient Of The Macarthur Fellowship. --book Jacket. By Sarah Ruhl.
language: en
title: In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
publisher: Theatre Communications Group