OVERVIEW

• Playwright

   

• Adapted / Translated From

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Author Notes

  Adapted by the company from the 1892 novella of the same name.

• Setting

  An attic room.

• Synopsis

  A new adaptation of the American Gothic novella which charts a young woman’s descent into madness during the Victorian era of medical extremes. Trapped in an attic room and cut off from the world, she begins to obsess over the wallpaper and what’s waiting behind it. As she struggles to make sense of its twisting patterns, what she discovers draws her closer and closer to the edge.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Female

  1

• Total

  1

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  18 September 2011

• Production Notes

  Produced by Then This Theatre as part of the 2011 ABSOLUT Fringe, Dublin Fringe Festival.

• Producer

  Produced by Then This Theatre

• Original Venue

  Smock Alley Theatre
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  First performed at the 2011 ABSOLUT Fringe, Dublin Fringe Festival.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.