The last thing you’d expect to improve a broke 19-year-old boy’s sex life would be having to move back into his grandma’s house — which is precisely the comic incongruity that drives “Luka’s Room” at Theatre/Theater.
While Rob Mersola’s new coming-of-age narrative sports some cleverly constructed twists, excellent performances outshine other scripting limitations in this debut staging from Rogue Machine.
Aiming its sensibilities squarely at millennials, Mersola’s play taps the trending “reverse empty nest” proliferation of adult children moving back home, as Luka (Nick Marini) shows up on the doorstep of his curmudgeonly Italian American grandmother, Franca (Joanna Lipari), who has begun showing early signs of dementia.