A Room with a View

Written by E. M. Forster

Narrated by Rosalind Ayres, Edita Brychta, Alastair James Murden and 6 more

In this original adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel, an encounter in Florence and an offer to exchange rooms brings George Emerson to the attention of Lucy Honeychurch. Their flirtation is cut short by Lucy’s chaperone, but when they meet again back home in England, Lucy must negotiate the demands of her station with the desires of her heart.

Includes an interview with Julian Sands.

Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in March, 2019.

Adapted and Directed by Kate McAll
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Rosalind Ayres as Charlotte Bartlett
Edita Brychta as Mrs. Honeychurch, Miss Lavish, Signora

Alastair James Murden as Freddy Honeychurch, Guide, Italian Driver

Moira Quirk as Miss Catherine Alan, Miss Teresa Alan, Maid

Darren Richardson as Mr. Beebe and Sir Harry

Julian Sands as Mr. Emerson

Eugene Simon as George Emerson
Eleanor Tomlinson as Lucy Honeychurch
Matthew Wolf as Cecil Vyse, Shopkeeper, English Driver

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Sound Designer, Recording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Brian Wallace

Production Manager: Jessie Vachiano

Editor: Julian Nicholson

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: Jun 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781682660942

E. M. Forster

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist. Born in London to an Anglo-Irish mother and a Welsh father, Forster moved with his mother to Rooks Nest, a country house in rural Hertfordshire, in 1883, following his father’s death from tuberculosis. He received a sizeable inheritance from his great-aunt, which allowed him to pursue his studies and support himself as a professional writer. Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge, from 1897 to 1901, where he met many of the people who would later make up the legendary Bloomsbury Group of such writers and intellectuals as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes. A gay man, Forster lived with his mother for much of his life in Weybridge, Surrey, where he wrote the novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times without winning, Forster is now recognized as one of the most important writers of twentieth century English fiction, and is remembered for his unique vision of English life and powerful critique of the inequities of class.

Reviews for A Room with a View

[davischristopherjohn · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved this adaptation. Well-acted, smart, timely. Also includes an interview with the late Julian Sands that was fascinating.