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lpasch1 · 26-03-2011 10:36AM #1

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.

iguana · 26-03-2011 06:50PM

12 Angry Men?

EileenG · 26-03-2011 07:18PM

Panic Room?

pickarooney · 26-03-2011 08:20PM

Rope? Not technically a play but for all intents and purposes filmed theatre.

cobsie · 26-03-2011 08:55PM

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 · 26-03-2011 09:16PM

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 · 26-03-2011 09:26PM

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

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