Is This A Room

A real-life thriller plays out word for word, as it happened.

In June 2017, 25-year-old Air Force linguist Reality Winner is surprised at her home by armed FBI agents. They’re investigating a leak. Classified information has got out about Russian hacking to influence the 2016 US presidential election. Reality lets the agents in. They chat in her small back room. Gradually, it becomes clear: this is an interrogation.

Is This A Room stages the official FBI transcript of Reality’s interrogation word for word live on stage – and the whole experience is chilling.

As the verbal dance between the knife-sharp Reality and FBI agents unfolds in Reality’s home and her autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering contemporary thriller emerges. Questions of honour, patriotism, language, power and who has access to what in this particular American moment are woven together in an astonishingly emotional exploration of the personal and political.

Is This A Room is an unnerving drama that will leave your heart racing.