A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

Synopsis

A play.

Bri, a schoolteacher and his wife Sheila have a 10-year old spastic child named Josephine, who is completely helpless and utterly dependent.

Bri hides behind irony and sarcasm.

Sheila believes the child is her penance for a promiscuous past and soldiers on devotedly with their little "Joe Egg."

Well-meaning family and friends offer sundry solutions, everything from adoption to euthanasia but ultimately Bri finds he cannot continue and leaves Sheila and Joe behind.4 women, 2 men