The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche
Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche, The Author: Thomas Kilroy
First Performance: 1968, Dublin
Published: 1969
Genre: Com. in 2 acts
Setting: Kelly's flat in Dublin, 1960s
Cast: 6m
After a drinking session in a Dublin pub, six men repair to Kelly's flat to continue drinking and chatting. Only one of them is married: Seamus, a teacher, who after only two years of marriage is already weary of its ‘sameness’. Their host Kelly is a 36-year-old civil servant, missing his home in the country where he grew up, but now resigned to being ‘the success of my family’. The last to arrive is Mr Roche, an older man whose homosexual proclivities are a source of amusement to the others. For a joke, they lock him in the bathroom with Kevin, a student. Roche is unamused by the prank since he is claustrophobic, and when he...
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