Room

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In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.

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Room soars! Visually arresting and emotionally rich, Emma Donoghues Room is boldly realised for the stage harrowing astonishingly moving. * Toronto Star *
Emma Donoghue's adaptation of her novel works beautifully onstage, and the songs capture heightened moments with sensitivity. A story of survival and love something we all need to hear more of at this time. * Now Magazine *
The most striking thing about Emma Donoghues stage version of her award-winning novel, Room, is its intense imaginative quality Kathryn Josephs songs, co-written with Cora Bissett, burst from the texture of the play like some heightened form of speech The story of Room is in some ways a harrowing one, that brings many in the audience to tears. Yet it is also a tremendously beautiful, vivid and uplifting show about the power of a mothers love * The Scotsman *
Haunting and reflective music and lyrics. They emerge naturally from the narrative Compelling viewing (even in you know the ending.) This coproduction is a triumph * Times of London *
A strangely moving work about the power of imagination and the pain of adjustment to a new reality. I found the prospect of the play intimidating. In the end, I was deeply touched by its testament to human resourcefulness * Guardian *

Author Bio

Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who lives in Canada. Her novel Room won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and the Caribbean) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes as well as the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It sold more than two million copies. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film Room, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her fiction (short and long) ranges from the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects, Akin) to the historical (Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music, The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars). Donoghue's books for young readers are The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More Or Less.