The Moonlight Room
by Tristine Skyler

Name: The Moonlight Room
Brand: Tristine Skyler
SKU: 9780822220114
Rating: 3.47 (21 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsInterior SetAmerican

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play, appreciating its strong dialogue and well-researched medical themes, while some find it heavy-handed and outdated. Many praise its tight construction and emotional impact, while a few feel it serves more as a lesson than an engaging story.

Well-researched medical themesStrong and true dialogueEmotionally impactfulHeavy-handed and pandering themesFeels dated in some references

Synopsis

Book by Tristine Skyler

Press Reviews

"The play has none of the qualities ordinarily associated with 'a new voice'…THE MOONLIGHT ROOM relies on sharply observed characters, a credibly complicated and suspenseful situation with high stakes and an unashamed realism, with distinct and sensationally personal shadings by Ms. Skyler in the most pitch perfect, middle-class teenage dialogue that I've encountered…Another reason THE MOONLIGHT ROOM is so impressive is that it continues to evolve in unexpected ways…leaves you both hopeful and fearful, spot-on realistic.“ —The New York Times. ”A surprisingly memorable play showing high-schoolers and their families caught in crisis…on a list of first-rate playwrights doing splendid work.“ —New York Post. ”One of the most heartfelt and well-executed dramas of the season, THE MOONLIGHT ROOM is an often wrenching story of the creation and mending of the rifts between parents and their children and those rifts' effects on the world…every bit as searing and theatrical as one could hope fo"
— Newsday (NY)