Shop

ROGER’S DAY

$5.40$15.00

Ted and Kath McIntosh are a retired couple living in a suburban house which they obsessively clean and tidy. Their son, Roger, a university student, has left home and not been back nor made any contact since. They keep his room ready for him to return and, each year on his birthday, they have a “party” for him, at which they pretend that he comes to lunch.

They have a story about why he left, where he is, what he’s doing and his plans, which they continually develop, refine, and often argue over. In this way they reassure themselves about his absence but they have increasing difficulty maintaining this fiction with their neighbours – Stubbs, a retired, single man on one side and Mrs Tran and her two children, the new Asian family on the other.

What really happened is gradually revealed as Stubbs becomes concerned about the McIntoshes and their increasing withdrawal from the world.

When Roger does really return, he and Ted face off and the full impact of his departure hits home.

  • naturalistic - comic
  • 45
  • 5 total
  • 2 female identifying, 3 male identifying
  • 18+
  • young adult, adult
  • Australian Script Centre


  • PRODUCTION HISTORY

Search for details of past productions at AusStage.edu.au

AusStage provides an accessible research facility for investigating live performance in Australia.


Search by play title and/or playwright name
Results will open in a new window

PLEASE NOTE: You will be directed to AusStage.edu.au for search results; Australian Plays Transform is not responsible for their completeness. Refer to our terms of use.

$15.00
$5.40
SKU: ASC-1884 Category:

We acknowledge that we live and create on unceded lands. We pay our respects to the First Peoples of Australia, and to their elders past, present and future.

© Australian Plays Transform 2024