Review: Room at the Abbey Theatre: An affecting work that will be warmly received by audiences
Emma Donoghue hit literary gold with Room, her story of a young mother and her son held captive for years by a cruel tormentor. The details of all-too-real and all-too-gruesome events that inspired Donoghue’s work, such as the Josef Fritzl case, hardly bear thinking about.
But Donoghue’s work, by focusing on the imagination of a child whose world is circumscribed by four walls, and the effects of that environment on a young mind’s development, worldview and language, allowed her a way to clear space for a compellingly human and psychologically interesting work.
