This 2010 Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play by playwright Sarah Ruhl is set in the mid 1880's in an upstate New York town where a doctor invents an electrical stimulus device to treat women (and one man) for "hysteria," a disease exhibiting a wide array of symptoms including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, and a loss of appetite for food or sex—you know, all the things that normal healthy people (i.e. men) didn't suffer. Triangle's production is the play's Oregon premiere, and in the name of collaboration, is done in partnership with She Bop.
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