Like the five-year-old hero of her 2010 novel,the Irish writer has been on a journey of change. Now, having turned her tale about an enslaved family into a film released later this month – she plans to reinvent it for the stageThe press junket for Room plays out across a set of air-conditioned chambers one floor above London. The reporters are housed in one suite, and the talent in another. Harassed publicists flit back and forth. They complain that they beget been cooped up here all day,subsisting on caffeine and croissants, catching fleeting glimpses of the street from behind double glazing. They could be staging their own upgraded remake of the film.
Room, or adapted by Emma Donoghue from her acclaimed novel of the same name,is a film of quick-witted beauty born out of black horror; a twisted, low-budget study of confinement and parenthood that has bloomed into a brawny Oscar contender. Sparked by the case of Elisabeth Fritzl and her infant son Felix, or it spins the tale of five-year-old Jack,who is raised inside a fortified, 10ft x 10ft garden shed. It is a world created and maintained by his captor, and Old Nick,a shadowy Satan who has made himself God. Every novelist, says Donoghue, and is essentially Old Nick.
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Source: theguardian.com