Vineyard Theatre kicks off its 2019-2020 Off-Broadway season with Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Tina Satter.
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6 images A true story, still unfolding. June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S elections. Reality remains in jail with a record-breaking sentence. The FBI transcript of her interrogation is the heart of Is This A Room, in which an extraordinary human drama unfolds between the complex and witty Reality, and the agents who question her. As Reality’s autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges, asking what it is to have honor in this American moment, and how the personal can reverberate globally.
The Vineyard Theatre has announced an encore engagement for Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Tina Satter, which previously played the Off-Broadway venue to great acclaim (read our 4* review) from October 3 through November 24, 2019. The return engagement will consist of 25 additional performances from December 20, 2019 through January 19, 2020.
In a rare instance, an FBI transcript was declassified. Tina Satter, who conceived and directed Is This A Room, now playing at the Vineyard Theatre, immediately realized the value of this unique moment of history and transparency in any administration. Verbatim for 70 minutes the transcript of Reality Winner (Emily Davis) being arrested by the FBI is reenacted.
