AdvertisementCultureLive reviewsMelbourne live reviews Flashback to marriage equality vote evokes tumult of a devastating time Sonia Nair January 30, 2026 — 1:04pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. The kitchen of matriarch Pat (Meredith Rogers, centre) becomes the focal point of The Placeholder. We’re plunged headfirst into 2017, notably the year queer communities were subjected to a plebiscite on marriage equality. Matriarch Pat (Meredith Rogers) is a soft-spoken retiree whose kitchen becomes the focal point of the play, brilliantly materialised by Bethany J. Fellows’s set design. Pat (Meredith Rogers) and Nic (Oliver Ayres) in The Placeholder.