CHATROOM

WRITTEN BY Enda Walsh
DIRECTED BY Marcelo Javier & Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
PERFORMED BY Young Thespians Theater Lab
PRODUCTION DESIGN BY San Francisco Running Crew

DATES Apr 19-20, 2019 at 7PM
LOCATION Brava Theater Center

DESCRIPTION Mission Academy of Performing Arts @ Brava presented their 2019 Spring Production of Enda Walsh's Chatroom. The play takes place in the virtual space of an internet chatroom. A group of bored and restless teenagers – William, Jack, Eva, Emily and Laura – spend their time deconstructing children’s literature and the messages in modern pop music. But when a new member, Jim, joins to share his depression and thoughts of suicide, the conversation takes a dark turn. The group is torn between those who want to help and those who see this as a chance to create a martyr for the teenage population.

Chatroom was first performed as part of the 2005 National Theatre Connections season, an annual festival of new plays for youth theaters and schools. It received its first professional production in the Cottesloe auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 10 March 2006. Learn more about this performance here.