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.]] |
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