{"id":1086,"date":"2009-11-22T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T22:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2009-12-25T04:51:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:51:22","slug":"vibrator-play-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/11\/22\/vibrator-play-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vibrator Play on Broadway (Review and Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A period play about vibrators? It sounds like an unlikely theme for a Broadway play, but playwright Sarah Ruhl pulls it off in her In the Next Room or the vibrator play.<\/em><\/p>\n

I highly recommend this funny and insightful comedy about hysteria<\/em>, a “disease of the womb.” And so does New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood.<\/a> But Isherwood’s review is missing a limerick:<\/p>\n

Vibrant Vibrator Play (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

A “Vibrator Play” on Broadway?
\nYes, it sounds just a little risqu\u00e9.
\nBut it’s witty — not crude.
\n(Though it ain’t for a prude.)
\nI just loved it, so book it today.<\/p>\n

(The details: In the Next Room or the vibrator play<\/em> is a Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Les Waters and playing at the Lyceum Theater.<\/a> It stars Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, Maria Dizzia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Chandler Williams, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and Wendy Rich Stetson.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A period play about vibrators? It sounds like an unlikely theme for a Broadway play, but playwright Sarah Ruhl pulls it off in her In the Next Room or the vibrator play. I highly recommend this funny and insightful comedy about hysteria, a “disease of the womb.” And so does New York Times theater critic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,75,38,23,100,25,42,67,73,72,32],"tags":[837,833,836,832,834,835,838,828,831,829],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-entertaining-new-yorkers","category-feminist-satire","category-health-humor","category-history-humor","category-leisure-time-humor","category-limericks","category-movie-humor","category-new-york-limericks","category-night-on-the-town","category-social-satire","tag-broadway-comedy","tag-charles-isherwood","tag-feminist-humor","tag-hysteria-disease","tag-les-waters","tag-lincoln-center-theater","tag-sarah-ruhl","tag-theater-review","tag-vibrator-play","tag-vibrators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}