The Day Room

<p> The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold – in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour – our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are <i>playing</i> psychiatric patients <i>playing</i> doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein? </p> <p> </p> <p> Described by the <i>Boston Globe</i> on its first performance as ‘an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny’, <i>The Day Room</i> displays Don DeLillo’s extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights. </p>