The Yellow Wallpaper
Join us for unforgettable Victorian gothic horror as we bring Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper to life.
Time & Location
Sep 04, 2026, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Trinity Street Playhouse, 901 Trinity St, Austin, TX 78701, USA
About the event
A locked room. A journal. And a "rest cure" that demands a woman surrender her art, her autonomy, and her mind. The year is 1889, and a young wife is trapped in a secluded mansion under the strict control of her physician husband. But when the room's tattered wallpaper begins to shift and whisper, the cure becomes far more terrifying than the illness. Rooted in Gilman's own harrowing postpartum experience, The Archive Theatre brings Gilman's classic Gothic horror story to life. Adapted by Jeff Davis, The Yellow Wallpaper is an incredible new play about control, dependence, and the fight to survive.
Age Recommendation: 13 and up for themes of mental illness, psychological distress, forced confinement, medical procedures, suicidal ideation, and emotional abuse.
Run Time: 105 minutes.
Trigger Warnings: The Yellow Wallpaper contains depictions and discussions of severe mental illness, psychological distress, forced confinement, medical procedures, suicidal ideation, and emotional abuse. It is also likely to make you very, very angry.
The theater has seating on three sides of the stage. Premium Seating is in the first 3 rows of the Main section which faces directly to the stage. The rest of the main section and the side sections are General Admission seating.