At the dawn of the electrical age, a new medical device is developed to treat and pacify “hysterical” women, but it unknowingly produces a very different result.
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Titillating now, but then, it was a medical procedure: Used to treat Victorian-era women for hysteria, a vague and chronic emotional ailment with symptoms including anxiety, insomnia and arousal. When the vibrator was invented, doctors such as Dr, Givings (Eric Hissom) simplified what was once a time-consuming, manual process to one that could be completed in minutes. But this is not a play about a sex toy - it’s a play about women in a changing world, where technology brings new freedoms, but the attitudes of culture haven’t yet caught up. Mrs. Givings (Katie DeBuys) is listless, her child being raised by a wet nurse (Jessica Francis Dukes), and she soon grows curious about the medical procedures being performed on Mrs. Daldry (Kimberly Gilbert). What she finds in the next room liberates her - and her husband learns a thing or two about pleasure, as well.
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