A true story, still unfolding. June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S elections. Reality subsequently received a record-breaking sentence.
The verbatim FBI transcript of her interrogation is the heart of Is This a Room, conceived as a play by Obie Award-winner Tina Satter, in which an extraordinary human drama unfolds between the complex and witty Reality, and the agents who question her. As Reality’s autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges, asking what it is to have honor in this American moment, and how the personal can reverberate globally.
“…a 65-minute verbatim transcript has now become the basis for one of the thrillingest thrillers ever to hit Broadway…” — New York Times“
Impeccable drama.” — Deadlinea
Click on the image below to listen to an except from the original production on This American Life from Episode 696: Low Hum of Menace:
