Emma Donoghue's Room to be adapted for the stage

Emma Donoghue's bestselling novel Room, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film starring Brie Larson, is to be adapted for the stage and will receive its world premiere at the Theatre Royal Stratford East next year.

Room tells the story of a mother who was kidnapped as a teenage girl and locked inside a room with her son for seven years. The play, which will include new music by Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph, will be directed by Bissett with design by Lily Arnold, and will run from 10 May to 3 June 2017, with previews from 2 May.

Other newly announced productions in Stratford East's forthcoming season include The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (8 February to 11 March), a coming-of-age musical by Kirsten Childs about an African American girl who dreams of becoming a dancer. Rikki Beadle Blair's romcom Summer In London will receive its world premiere from 8 to 29 July, and the theatre's 2017 pantomime will be Rapunzel.

The venue will also receive tours of the National Theatre's My Country; A Work in Progress, and Ramps on the Moon's production of The Who's Tommy.