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lpasch1
Im researching the theme of 'the room' in film & theatre history
Does anyone know any scenes where the room itself becomes an element of the play (eg. Description in script/ or whats outside of it/ or just the intensity of it)
I know its a difficult question, but any recommendations will be much appreciated.
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iguana
12 Angry Men?
EileenG
Panic Room?
pickarooney
Rope? Not technically a play but for all intents and purposes filmed theatre.
cobsie
One-room plays I can think of:
Look Back in Anger
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Iceman Cometh
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Ruffian on the Stair
(Probably loads of others. It's a cheap and convenient staging device.)
Movies:
Escape from Alcatraz (Clint Eastwood's cell)
Barton Fink (his hotel room)
Dr Strangelove (the War Room - "There's no fighting in the War Room!")
Sleuth
Panic Room (so-so movie, but fit for purpose)
You could stretch the analogy to include prisons, casinos, motels, malls - anywhere that is an enclosed, contiguous, homogeneous environment.
iguana
There is also Hitchcock's Lifeboat which is completely set on a lifeboat. That's sort of a room. It certainly is in terms of the claustrophobic effect.
lpasch1
Thank you for so many recommendations
From preliminary research online from the ones I havn't seen, I will be watching the following across the weekend
-12 angry men
-Whose afraid of virginia woolf
-Rope
Cheers guys