I met Henry Schvey because of our shared passion for Tennessee Williams, an American playwright born in 1911. I enrolled in Henry’s American Culture Studies course on Williams’ work, although he was understandably wary of allowing a freshman into his 400-level reading-intensive course, but eventually allowed me to enroll.

While vibrators and sexuality may be no big deal nowadays (you can major in sexuality studies, for God’s sake), the world of Sarah Ruhl’s “In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)” is a lot more buttoned up. Thankfully, we no longer live in the tightly bound Victorian era, and the director of “Vibrator” is much more open to discussion than the drama’s characters.