"The Room" was first produced by Henry Woolf and presented at The Drama Studio at the University of Bristol in May 1957 and again as part of the National Student Drama Festival held at the University of Bristol in 1958. It was at this second performance that the play was first reviewed by the London "Sunday Times" by drama critic Harold Hobson, who had helped to found the Drama Festival with some of his colleagues. The original production featured the following cast: