The book and lyrics of the extraordinary musical from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. 1963, Louisiana. The destruction of a Confederate statue might just signal that change is in the air. But, whatever the progress of the civil rights movement, things seem just the same in the Gellman household - for now at least. Caroline, the black maid to the family, is struggling to stay afloat - emotionally and economically. Noah, the eight-year-old son of her employer, tries to make sense of the world following the death of his mother and his father's remarriage. When his stepmother comes up with a way for Caroline to take a little more money home, the consequences for Caroline and Noah's relationship are not what anybody might have expected... Caroline, or Change is an uplifting and profound portrait of America at a time of momentous social upheaval. The musical, with book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and music by Jeanine Tesori, was first performed at New York's Off-Broadway Public Theater, where it opened in November 2003, transferring to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Broadway in May 2004. It received its British premiere at the National Theatre in 2006 and won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. This edition was published alongside the Chichester Festival Theatre production, which transferred to Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2018. 'Extraordinary... Perhaps no one short of the author of Angels in America could pull this off... you feel that mixture of terror and rapture that arrives on those rare occasions in theatre and in life when you genuinely don't know what's going to happen next' New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. "Tony Kushner's A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY ... is unabashedly political, thought-provoking, a little scary, and frequently a good deal of theatrical fun ... BRIGHT ROOM is ... an examination of Nazi Germany in an attempt to shed insight on our own time. It's brash, audacious, and, depending on your politics, anything from infuriatingly naïve to intoxicatingly visionary. In its 1932-33 span, it tells of a group of Berlin artists and friends, with varying degrees of communist leanings, and of the changes in their lives as democracy falls and Adolph Hitler takes over." -Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune "It's fun to see a show this engaged. This passionate and ready to talk. Wild, uneven, pugnacious, ragged, committed, smart, dumb, satirical, and utterly serious ... Always dramatically and intellectually forceful. And most important, always passionately committed. More than a diatribe against Reagan or a falling-into-the-Nazi-abyss history play, A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY is an assertion of the need for commitment." -Anthony Adler, The Reader