Auditions for "In the Next Room"

Auditions will be held from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Oct. 16-17 for "In the Next Room," or the vibrator play. Play performances are at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26, 27, Feb. 2, 3, and at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 28 and Feb. 4.

Those auditioning should sign up for a 30-minute slot.

Upper-class theatre majors should have a 60-90 second prepared contemporary monologue. Prepared monologues are optional for first-years and non-majors. All those auditioning are encouraged to have read the script prior to auditions. All actors regardless of race, ethnicity, and ability are welcome.

This Pulitzer Prize finalist is set in the 1880s and based on the historical fact that doctors once used vibrators to treat "hysterical" women. "In the Next Room" involves a doctor and his wife (a new mother) and how the "therapy" affects their entire household.

Other themes include Victorian ignorance of female sexual desire, motherhood, breastfeeding, and jealousy. The comedy by Sarah Ruhl was nominated for three 2010 Tony Awards. (Wikipedia) The playwright's parents grew up in Davenport but this is the first time the play has been performed in the Quad Cities.

Directed by Jennifer Popple.