Darling, I'm Home

Darling, I'm Home, a play by English writer and playwright Jack Popplewell (1911-1996). Casting: 5F 4M

Celia is a housewife, Rupert is a businessman – and neither is happy with or successful in their respective role, inspiring them to simply swap! Thus Rupert discovers the blessings of hearth and home while Celia travels abroad, accompanied by an attractive secretary. The experiment proves unexpectedly successful – until Celia and Rupert’s daughter Karen, single mother of twin babies, arrives, thereby turning her parents’ well-oiled daily routine upside down and once more calls the seemingly clear role allocation into question…

Performance history in South Africa
World premiere presented by Pieter Toerien by arrangement with Herbert de Leon at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre and the Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town, directed by English director Peter Dews (1929-1997), 1972, starring Ian Carmichael, Diane Todd, Christine le Brocq.

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