Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers is a play by Edward Rose that adapted the 1882 novel of the same name by Thomas Anstey Guthrie.

[1] Guthrie authorized Rose's adaptation,[2] but later decided to write his own stage version of the story, which debuted in 1910.

[3] Mr. Bultitude, a middle-aged man with a school-aged son named Dick, has unknowingly come into possession of the "Garuda stone", a magical object that grants its holder one wish.

Although Bultitude wants to swap back, Dick is pleased to be an adult and wishes for his body-swapped father to be sent off to boarding school.

Bultitude's middle-aged habits are out of place at school, and he is surprised by romantic attention from Dulcie Grimstone, the schoolmaster's daughter.