What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Warm weather in the summer and the sound of hurling on the radio. Cold dry weather in the winter and the smell of a wood fire.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Erik Satie.
Which living person do you most admire?
My sister Paula. She's a nurse. More than ever, we need our frontline workers, farmers, supermarket staff, and the folk keeping the lights and internet going. Lockdown has shown us who the real indispensable people are.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I'd probably say procrastination if I ever got round to it...
What is your greatest extravagance?
Eating out in restaurants. By the gods but I can't wait to be extravagant again.
What is your favourite journey?
First trip on the subway whenever I visit New York.
On what occasion do you lie?
Whenever I say, "I'm going to bed early tonight."
Which living person do you most despise?
The real Logan Roy.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Herself.
When and where were you happiest?
The here and the now.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Piano! And I'm working on it. Agus an teanga; táim ag obair air freisin.
What is your current state of mind?
What's for lunch?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Hasn't happened yet but one day I will make incredible homemade curry cheese chips.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
Same as anyone really - the heat death of the universe.
What is your most treasured possession?
Right now, my Yamaha piano.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Realising you're out of pasta after you've cooked the meat sauce.
What is your favourite occupation?
Making something I know I'd pay to see.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to say, "I don't know the answer to that."
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
The ability to say, "I know the answer to that."
Who are your favourite writers?
Patrick O'Brian, John McGahern, Austen, Shakespeare, Lindsey Davis, and Margaret Mahy.
What is your motto?
Good enough is better than perfect.
John Rogers is a theatre maker from Mohill, Leitrim, now based in Galway. He is working on In The Mouth Of Fire, a scratch work to be performed live on YouTube on Friday May 29 at 8pm as part of InterAction, presented by Galway Theatre Festival and Galway 2020. www.interactiongalway.com for details.
