'Waiting for Robbo' - A City play

'Waiting For Robbo' is a new comedy by Vic Mills, receiving its premiere over two nights at Blackwood Little Theatre, Blackwood, Gwent, on 22nd & 23rd November 2006 (performance at 7.30pm).

The play is to be performed by Bluebird Players - Vic Mills' own company set up for this production.

Taking its structure from Becketts', 'Waiting For Godot', the play is a black comedy about men, football and other huge existential questions, such as, 'Is there life outside the Premiership'?

The play tells of two lifelong City fans, obsessed with the success of Cardiff City, having followed the team for thirty years or more. The events of the play take place towards the end of a season that has left City needing one more win to make it to the Premiership. It is the afternoon of that final game. The two men are at the home of one of them, ready to go to the game and awaiting the arrival of a third friend, the mysterious 'Robbo'.

Whilst they wait, getting ever more anxious, another visitor arrives - a strange and troubling figure whose presence never seems fully explained, but who questions the lives and identities of the two men, whose loyalty to the team and to one another seems the centre of their lives.

The timing of this production is fascinating, as Cardiff City does seem poised with its greatest opportunity in 30 years to gain a place in the promised land of the Premiership.

Contains

VERY STRONG LANGUAGE

Email: bluebirdplayers@googlemail.com