![]() ![]() ![]() For one show, she bussed 20 people at a time “to a really rough building where they took part in a show in a flat”. (She describes them both as having this "absolutely unpretentious generous energy".)ĭonoghue “promptly Googled” Bissett and was delighted by her experimental work. Donoghue was to have a similar experience with Bissett. "I love this book, I feel I understand how it works, and I believe I have the skill and sensitivity to do it justice on film," he wrote. When Lenny Abrahamson approached her to make the film, it was his passionate letter that won her over. But it would have to be the right kind of collaborator." Others have proved vital for Donoghue in creating Room's other incarnations. The show begins in less than an hour.ĭonoghue has written several other plays and "always thought Room could work on stage definitely, as soon as I'd written the novel really. ![]() "Emma Donoghue Room" is writ large in lights Donoghue says it's like bringing a picture home from school and seeing it stuck up on the fridge. Room premiered in London in May, and I walk with Donoghue past the Theatre Royal Stratford East, looking for a cafe to talk. Now it's a somewhat unlikely musical, written by Donoghue and directed by Cora Bissett, and opening at the Abbey Theatre this week. ![]() It became a best-selling novel, and then an Oscar-winning film. The story of the Josef Fritzl case planted the seed in author Emma Donoghue's mind and inspired her story of a mother and boy held captive in a basement, the only world the boy ever knew. ![]()
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