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Context Theatre / RobAndRoberta

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1	A new piece of theatre that premiered in Melbourne in August 2013. A revival is currently planned in Edinburgh for January 2014.
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3	Rob and Roberta are housemates and best friends, though everyone admits that the friendship is slightly… uneven. Rob is [[JerkAss sardonic, mean and callous]], while Roberta remains [[TeamMom patient, kind and overly eager to please just about everyone]]; Rob has recently been through a bad break-up with a ‘perfect’ woman named Rachel – but what exactly drove them apart? Plain old romantic differences, or something much, much darker?
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5	Meanwhile, two friends of Roberta, Cheeto and Flyby (sometimes known as Rida), are desperate to tell one another that they love each other: in actual fact, they have both told each other several times, but they always forget due to “intoxication”.
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7	!!Rob and Roberta contains the following tropes:
8	* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Does Rob's plan to cure himself work? We never find out.]]
9	* BetaCouple: Flyby and Cheeto [[spoiler: who end up together, unlike Rob and Rachel]].
10	* ComedicSociopathy: Nearly all of Rob's line are putting down another character or just generally ignoring social rules. [[spoiler: it's later revealed it's actually comedic psychopathy, but close enough.]]
11	* EmbarrassingNickname: Flyby/Rida hates being called such. [[spoiler: Later on, he calls his friends out on it.]]
12	* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: We see Cheeto and Flyby just after they get married before we actually see them properly get together.]]
13	* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Cheeto claims [[BlatantLies his real name is 'Chastity']]. This is not the case.
14	** WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Cheeto says that his mother naming him 'Cheeto' is proof that she doesn't love him.
15	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]; Rachel obviously likes to think of herself as this, and sets out to 'fix' Rob. At any cost.
16	* TheStoner: Cheeto and Flyby keep confessing their love for each other, and then forgetting because of their marijuana habit.
17	* TheDogBitesBack: Flyby [[spoiler: is the only one in the play to call Rob out on his treatment of others, in the penultimate scene.]]
18	* UnreliableNarrator: Rob [[spoiler: tells a horrifying and entirely untrue monologue about how his grandfather died.]]

Context Theatre / RobAndRoberta