The Question Game by Ashley Lauren Rogers

FULL LENGTH - Against her better judgment, Amber (a trans heavy metal musician) arrives at the run-down seaside New England home of her estranged father Arthur, whom she hasn't seen in about 2 decades. She gives him one last shot to tell her this secret he would only share in person when she finds him drunk in his own home. What is her father's secret? Why did she ever decide to allow him back in...
FULL LENGTH - Against her better judgment, Amber (a trans heavy metal musician) arrives at the run-down seaside New England home of her estranged father Arthur, whom she hasn't seen in about 2 decades. She gives him one last shot to tell her this secret he would only share in person when she finds him drunk in his own home. What is her father's secret? Why did she ever decide to allow him back in her life? And what other spirits haunt Arthur's home and might continue to haunt Amber after their encounter?
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The Question Game

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  • Brian James Polak:
    19 Jun. 2023
    “ This great play has me thinking quite a bit about catharsis because it brilliantly withholds any obvious variation of such thing. The Question Game is a fantastic take on a parent/child reconciliation and satisfies on many emotional levels. Such confrontations don't unfold and wrap up perfectly in life and this play avoids simplistic and predictable plot points yet left me filled up in the end. ”
  • The Workshop Theater:
    11 Jan. 2021
    “ The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Ashley Lauren Rogers as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Fall 2020 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Ashley was clear, hard working and quick in revising her one-act, which denied audiences the easy, dumbed-down, neat version of life as a punk rock transwoman grips with loss and so many unanswered questions in favor of acceptance of the complex, bittersweet reality of parents that just didn't show up. Our congratulations and thanks to Ashley. ”

Character Information

  • AMBER
    Early-Mid 30s,
    Any
    ,
    Trans Woman or Transfeminine NB/Genderqueer
    Current lead singer of Keelhaul, a Pirate Metal band.
    Can be played by:
    • Age: 
      30s
    • Race/Ethnicity: 
      Any race/ethnicity
    • Gender: 
      Female, Non-binary
  • ARTHUR
    Early-mid 60s,
    Any (but probably white)
    ,
    Cis male
    Amber’s parent. Former glam rock roadie in the 1980s, wanted to be a rock star but never quite made it.
    Can be played by:
    • Age: 
      60s
    • Race/Ethnicity: 
      White
    • Gender: 
      Male
  • LEE
    Late 50s,
    BIPOC
    ,
    Cis female
    Crossing Guard within the community, knew Arthur.
    Can be played by:
    • Age: 
      50s
    • Race/Ethnicity: 
      Any actor of color
    • Gender: 
      Female

Development History

  • Workshop
    ,
    The Workshop Theater
    ,
    2020