{"id":57595,"date":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-theatre-department-presents-in-the-next-room-or-the-vibrator-play\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"uri-theatre-department-presents-in-the-next-room-or-the-vibrator-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/uri-theatre-department-presents-in-the-next-room-or-the-vibrator-play\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Theatre Department presents \u2018In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.\u2014October 1, 2015 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Theatre Department announces the opening of \u201cIn The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play,\u201d by Sarah Ruhl. <\/p>\n


\nPresented as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, \u201cThe Power of Humor,\u201d Sarah Ruhl\u2019s comedy of manners set in the Victorian Era was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play and selected as a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. <\/p>\n


\nHovering at the dawn of electricity, Dr. Givings, a scientist, happily embraces his invention with which he can cure the \u201chysteria\u201d of his patients, who are primarily female. His wife, Mrs. Givings, a new mother, is consistently pulled toward the sounds emanating from the next room. With the innocent aid given her by the other characters \u2014 a distraught female patient and her upright husband, a midwife assistant, an African-American wet nurse and a male artist, Mrs. Givings pursues the light that can infuse her marriage with loving intimacy and open the heavens to delight here on earth. The playwright enlightens us with her tender, hilarious and contemporary take on the universal desire to achieve intimacy with others.<\/p>\n


\nPerformances of \u201cIn The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play\u201d will run Oct. 15 through 17 and Oct. 22 through 24 at 7:30 p.m. with additional showings Oct. 18 and Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Robert E. Will Theatre in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road on the Kingston Campus. General admission is $20, while tickets cost $15 for seniors and 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and staff, and $12 for students. To purchase tickets online, visit web.uri.edu\/theatre, or call (401) 874-5843 beginning Oct. 5.<\/p>\n


\nA panel discussion, titled \u201cThe Electricity of Love,\u201d follows the 3 p.m. matinee performance on Sunday, Oct. 18. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. <\/p>\n


\nAssociate professor Bryna Wortman (\u201cSeminar,\u201d \u201cCrimes of the Heart,\u201d \u201cMuch Ado 溏心vlog免费B站 Nothing,\u201d \u201cMarvin\u2019s Room\u201d) directs the production, while costume design is by guest artist Marilyn Salvatore, \u201974, set design is by guest artist Cheryl deWardener, \u201989, lighting design is by guest artist Jen Rock, and sound design is by guest artist Mike Hyde.<\/p>\n


\nCAST

\nActor, Character, Hometown

\nBelamy Brophy-Baermann, (Dr. Givings), Warwick

\nChristine Dickinson, (Mrs. Givings), Woonsocket

\nKatherine Riley , (Mrs. Daldry), Hillsdale, N.J.

\nCeline Montauay, (Anne), Norwalk, Conn.

\nDaraja Hinds, (Elizabeth), Pawtucket

\nChristopher Morris, (Mr. Daldry), Harrison, N.Y.

\nDiego Guevara , (Leo Irving) , Central Falls<\/p>\n


\nUnderstudies

\nAbby Dufresne, (Mrs. Givings), North Kingstown

\nOlubunmi Olatunji, (Elizabeth), Providence

\nEmma Walker, (Annie), Naples, Maine

\nKyle Fletcher, (Mr Daldry), Ashaway

\nEmily Carter, (Mrs. Daldry), Scituate

\nJohn Thomas Cunha, (Dr. Givings), Middletown

\nJake Clarke, (Leo Irving), Narragansett<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nKatherine Riley, left, of Hillsdale, N.J., portrays Mrs. Daldry in 溏心vlog免费B站 Theatre\u2019s production of \u201cIn the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play\u201d by Sarah Ruhl. Belamy Brophy-Baermann, of Warwick, center, plays Dr. Givings, whose invention can cure the \u201chysteria\u201d of his female patients, while Mrs. Givings, played by Christine Dickinson, of Woonsocket, is drawn to the sounds emanating from the other room. Performances of this contemporary take on the universal desire to achieve intimacy with others begin Oct. 15 in the Robert E. Will Theatre in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road on the Kingston Campus.

\nPhoto by Randy Osga<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014October 1, 2015 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Theatre Department announces the opening of \u201cIn The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play,\u201d by Sarah Ruhl. Presented as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, \u201cThe Power of Humor,\u201d Sarah Ruhl\u2019s comedy of manners set in the Victorian Era was nominated for the 2010 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}