(This is Not a) Happy Room

Rosie Day author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:26th Mar '25

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(This is Not a) Happy Room cover

A new searingly sharp dark comedy that's Saltburn meets Schitt's Creek, following a family reuniting for their father's third (or fourth?) wedding.

One Wedding. One Funeral. Zero Boundaries.

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), this new, searingly sharp dark comedy cuts deep into family relationships.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere production at London's King's Head Theatre in March 2025.

“An urgent piece of storytelling” * WhatsOnStage *
“An impressively perfect script from Rosie Day, that will find its home in the audience’s hearts [...] a glorious piece” * Adventures in TheatreLand *

ISBN: 9781350566064

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 12mm

Weight: 129g

112 pages