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Reviewed by: Waikato Times/Theatreview
Date: 14th November
Reviewer: Gail Pittaway
It's hard to avoid dreadful puns for this unusual comedy by contemporary American writer Sarah Ruhl, when the subject is the use of an electrical vibrator used by doctors in the late nineteenth century to cure women of hysterical illnesses by inducing physical release, a paroxysm; an orgasm, by any other name. Shocking, stimulating, achieving a resounding climax, ultimately satisfying; there I've got some of them out of the way!
Gaye Poole takes her Carving in Ice company to new levels of performance in this beautifully cast and designed production. The set is brilliantly realised as two adjacent rooms, in a nineteenth century home with fine period furnishings, wooden doors and skirting boards and, everywhere in the domestic room, lighting, electric lamps; the marvel of Mr. Edison's great invention, electricity.
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