It’s kind of interesting that repressed female sexuality will be front and center this year, with David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method and Hysteria, aka “The vibrator movie.” Hysteria, which will screen at Toronto, is directed by a woman, Tanya Wexler, which should make it, at the very least, believable.
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Drew –
Ruhl certainly did. In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play was a Pulitzer nominee this past year. I was curious when I first heard about this movie if it was an adaptation, but alas it is not. It’s a wonderful play, so I’m curious to see how the subject matter is portrayed on screen. Ruhl discusses very specific direction when it came to portraying the orgasms the women would have and I have a concern that for comedy sake, they’ll get exaggerated in Hysteria.
Drew –
Ruhl certainly did. In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play was a Pulitzer nominee this past year. I was curious when I first heard about this movie if it was an adaptation, but alas it is not. It’s a wonderful play, so I’m curious to see how the subject matter is portrayed on screen. Ruhl discusses very specific direction when it came to portraying the orgasms the women would have and I have a concern that for comedy sake, they’ll get exaggerated in Hysteria.
I think Sarah Ruhl did a play based on this subject a couple years ago.
I think Sarah Ruhl did a play based on this subject a couple years ago.