In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play

Bruka Theatre

January 27-28 2012 February 02-04,09-12,15-18 2012

In The Next Room, or the vibrator play opens Friday, January 27, 2012 followed by a post show opening night champagne reception. In The Next Room (or the vibrator play) shows for 13 total performances: January 27 & 28.  February 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15 (February 15^th is a special Wednesday night show) 16, 17, 18, 2012.  There is a Sunday matinee on February 12  @ 2 PM followed by a talk back with the company. The doors open a half an hour before curtain time. 

Season Tickets are on sale now.  Reservations are available through our box office at (775) 323-3221 or on our website at www.bruka.org. Box-office hours are 1 - 5 pm Wednesday through Friday and 12 - 4 pm Saturday. Individual tickets are $18 for general $16 for students, seniors and military and all tickets are $20 at the door. We validate convenient parking at the Parking Gallery on First and Sierra Street. Bruka Theatre is located at 99 N. Virginia Street in Reno, Nevada in the heart of the downtown arts district.

 

IN THE NEXT ROOM

or the vibrator play

A Victorian Hysterical

 

Written by Sarah Ruhl  Directed by Karen Chandler

January 27, 28 February 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2012
Matinee February 12  @ 2 PM

 

Reno, NV.  Brüka Theatre presents In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play.   This comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity is written by award winning playwright Sarah Ruhl and Directed by Karen Chandler.  Nominated for three Tony awards, the play is set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men). Ruhl centers her play on "how we separate our bodily functions and labor and love" examining the nature of marriage and what it truly means to love someone.  In The Next Room, or the vibrator play premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2009.  No one under the age of 17 recommended.

 

ABOUT BRUKA THEATRE 19^th seasons in downtown Reno, Brüka has been named “Best Theatre Company” by The News and Review fourteen years running.  Brüka Theatre is a leader in the region, recognized for its productions, artists and theatre for children series since it’s founding in 1992. Central to Brüka is the commitment to the reinvestigation of contemporary and classic plays and developing new plays within Brüka’s Artistic Collective, which include winners of the Nevada Arts Council and Sierra Arts Foundation artist grants and local best actor honors.  Brüka is a non- equity and not-for-profit theater company that has produced over 80 shows in our downtown Reno location. The 2011/2012 Brüka Theatre Season salutes great theatre and art of the past with nods to the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930’s and riveting new plays set in watershed moments of America. Find us at www.bruka.org.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120463597

Sarah Ruhl is one of the most compelling playwrights of our time. In September 2006, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. The announcement of that award stated: "Sarah Ruhl, 32, playwright, New York City. Playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose the mundane aspects of daily life with mythic themes of love and war." Her work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (The Clean House) while In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play marked Ruhl’s Broadway debut and was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama.

 

 

 

Contact: Mary Bennett
(775) 323 - 3221
marybruka@gmail.com

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