Same Room, Different Furniture: Full play script

By Simon Q. Walden

Same Room, Different Furniture is a powerful two-hander for stage, exploring one family's journey through early-onset dementia with unflinching honesty, dark humour, and deep tenderness. Father and daughter share a kitchen, a history, and a diagnosis that will slowly take everything except what matters most.

Told in fifteen interconnected scenes, this contemporary play script moves between sharp, witty dialogue and raw emotional monologue, capturing the exhaustion, guilt, love, and unexpected laughter of family caregiving. A retired IT consultant with a mind built for logic. A secondary school teacher already stretched thin. Together they navigate lost tablets, forgotten names, wrong bathrooms, and the slow erosion of a brilliant mind, while never quite losing each other.

Originally produced as an audio drama, this edition has been adapted for stage performance, making it ideal for two-actor productions, drama schools, community theatre, and amateur dramatic societies looking for a script with real emotional weight and only two roles to cast.

Perfect for fans of intimate character-driven drama, contemporary British theatre, and stories about ageing, memory, and family. A generous small-scale performance licence is offered directly by the author, free of royalty, for schools and community groups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9LQF3D6
• ISBN13: 9798188130015
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 81 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"