OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Emma Donoghue 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Emma Donoghue

• Adapted From Notes

  Adapted from the 2010 novel of the same name. 

• Synopsis

  Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor’s garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma’s games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  4

• Total

  9

• Cast Notes

  Cast doubling occurs. The part of Little Jack was played by 3 young actors in rotation.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  10 May 2017

• Production Notes

  An Abbey Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East co-production in association with National Theatre of Scotland and Covent Garden Productions. 

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Venue Notes

  First performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East. 

• Irish Premiere Notes

  The original production transferred to the Abbey Theatre on 24th June 2017. 

Source Of Information

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