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(This Is Not A) Happy Room
Dark Comedy + Main House + Spring 2025

(This Is Not A) Happy Room

You can’t choose your family, but if you could, you wouldn’t choose this one

You can’t choose your family, but if you could, you wouldn’t choose this one.

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.

CAST & CREATIVES

Writer | Rosie Day

Director | Hannah Price

Producer | Katy Galloway

Ticket Price

£10 - £35

WHEN

26 March - 27 April

WHERE

King's Head Theatre

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REVIEWS

Reviews for Rosie Day’s previous work:

 ★★★★★ “An impressively perfect script from Rosie Day, that will find its home in the audience’s hearts [...] a glorious piece” – Adventures in Theatreland

★★★★★ “Rosie Day’s writing is wonderfully refreshing” - All That Dazzles

★★★★“An urgent piece of storytelling” - What’s On Stage

 ★★★★ "The show’s West End transfer is a testament to Rosie Day’s brilliant writing” - Rewrite This Story

"The brilliant writing will hook” - Broadway World

YOUR VISIT

Age guidance: 12+

Run Time: 90 minutes

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.

Our bar and box office are open from one hour before the performance starts. 


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