Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/05/2022
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Festival Theater
Short of grocery lists, raw transcripts may be the most boring things ever written. With their halts and hesitations and dust bunnies of fuzzy logic, they beg to be thoroughly tidied before use, and disposed of quickly after.
Nevertheless, a 65-minute verbatim transcript has now become the basis for one of the thrillingest thrillers ever to hit Broadway. “Is This a Room,” turns the ums and stutters and bizarre non sequiturs of recorded speech into astonishing — and astonishingly emotional — theater.
How does mind-numbing banality become heart-racing excitement? In “Is This a Room,” the transcript is only the starting point.