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(This Is Not A) Happy Room

By Rosie Day
Katy Galloway Productions in association with Brent Pace for Pace Live present
Wed 26 Mar - Sun 27 Apr
You can’t choose your family, but if you could, you wouldn’t choose this one
26 Mar
-
27 Apr

Meet the Hendersons, a happily dysfunctional family, reuniting for their dad’s third (or fourth?) wedding. But nobody expects the death of his bachelorhood to become an actual funeral… It would be a waste of the hotel function room not to repurpose it, right?  

Hailed as Saltburn meets Schitt's Creek, this is Rosie Day’s second play after Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon which premiered at Southwark Playhouse before transferring to The Garrick. With Day’s signature ‘laugh-a-minute’ humour (WhatsOnStage), her new, searingly sharp dark comedy premieres at the King's Head in March 2025.

(This is not a) Happy Room stars writer Rosie Day (Outlander), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), and Jonny Weldon (One Day). 

YOUR VISIT

 

Age guidance: 12+

 

Runtime: 90 mins, no interval

 

Content Warnings: Mentions of death

 

Starting times for this show vary. Please note that latecomers may not be admitted. Please ensure you arrive at the venue with plenty of time.

 

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Part of

Cast & Creatives

  • CAST

    Elle |     Rosie Day
    Esther |     Amanda Abbington
    Simon | Jonny Weldon
    Laura | Andrea Valls
    Charles | Tom Kanji
    Hayley | Jazz Jenkins
    Agatha | Alison Liney
  • CREATIVES

    Writer     | Rosie Day
    Director | Hannah Price
    Associate Director | Hanna Khogali 
    Producer | Katy Galloway
    Associate Producer | Brent Pace for Pace Live
    Sound Design | Adrienne Quartly
    Lighting Design | Rory Beaton
    Set and Costume Design | Georgia de Grey
    Stage Manager | Helen Parkin-Moore

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