Theatrical adaptation of Room at Prince of Wales Theatre is the most intense, uncompromising version yet
a theatrical adaptation of a book.
Jack does not understand that he and his mother are imprisoned in a shed by the frequent visitor he calls Old Nick , and certainly not that he is the product of his mother’s rape by her captor. His buoyant acceptance and even embrace of an objectively horrific situation is what makes Donoghue’s story one that readers and audiences have been intrigued by for over a decade now and willing to look at rather than turn away from.was originally produced overseas five years ago.
If the first act of the play is essentially a stage thriller, as intense as single-setting classics by Patrick Hamilton such as, the second act explores the difficulties Ma and Jack face adjusting or readjusting to the outside world and has a less clear dramatic shape.