Women's Project & SITI Company present
ROOM
based on the writings of Virginia Woolf
directed by Anne Bogart
adapted by Jocelyn Clark
starring Ellen Lauren
Sets by Neil Patel; Costumes by James Schuette; Original Lighting by Christopher Akerlind; Sound by Darron L West; Associate Lighting Design by Brian H Scott    

"Watching Lauren climb the walls of Neil Patel's terrifyingly empty set leaves one images, both haunting and heroic, of a great mind abandoned to itself — free and unmoored, equally." — Critic’s Pick, NY Magazine

"Fans of Woolf and adventurous dance/theater shouldn't hesitate to head to this production by Women's Project and SITI Company!" – Huffington Post

"The production is so imaginatively directed by Anne Bogart as to seem almost like a modern dance performance at times."-Associated Press

"A theatrical representation of the writer's mind, an abstraction painted with theater's animated tools." - The New York Times

“Women’s Project continues to impress me with their latest offering, a one woman show entitled Room…a beautiful, strong piece of theatre.” – Big Vision Empty Wallet

“Ellen Lauren's performance is both an acting triumph and an athletic triumph…Bogart's direction and the design aspects are simple yet evocative.” - Show Showdown

"DO NOT MISS ROOM. It will restore your faith in the human spirit, in artists, in the necessity of art and artists." - kimwield.com

Harvested from a lifetime of Virginia Woolf's writing, Room traces the movement of a creative spirit in exquisite crisis, an artist in a pressure cooker of articulation who seeks room to move, room to breathe, and room to imagine. The New York Times calls it “a theatrical representation of the writer's mind, an abstraction painted with theater's animated tools.” And the L.A. Times raves “Ellen Lauren's masterly economy of movement, combined with Anne Bogart's unerring compositional sense, is breathtaking.”


Click here to read WP's interview with Ellen Lauren.

Click here to read WP's interview with Anne Bogart.

Click here to read Ellen Lauren's article "In Search of Stillness" in American Theatre, January 2011.

Photos: Ellen Lauren in ROOM, photos by Chasi Annexy