IN THE NEXT ROOM A REVIEW

On the theory that there is something good in the worst of things we obediently look for what is good in the wreck of a play called In The Next Room.
Playwright Sarah Rule subtitles her new work The Vibrator Play and it takes place in the 1880s , the beginning of the age of electricity.It is based on the actual medical practice of treating patients with electric vibrators to cure any number of problems[depression and sexual dysfunction are the main ones], but despite a solid premise and a provacitive subject the play is an absolute bust. The plotting is deplorable, the dialog is wooden, and the production is nothing short of disastarous.
The staging by Les Waters is strictly of stock calaber,and the acting company seem most uneasy and sometimes embarased by what they are asked to do.
It is true that nothing goes right all the time, but with In The Next Room The Lincoln Center Theatre has perpetrated a first class disaster. Some days everything goes wrong.
AT The LYCEUM THEATRE 149 WEST 45th STREET N. Y. C.