Explore female hysteria and the dawn of modern women’s sexual liberation through the eyes of playwright Sarah Ruhl as the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre presents “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play).”

A fanciful, compassionate and stimulating study of sexuality and intimacy, the play is set in late 19th century, middle-class America, when “female problems” often were dismissed as “hysteria.” Enter Dr. Givings, who treats the symptoms with a strange, new electrically powered box.