'Til I Die

Synopsis

Danny and Lee have been going to watch their local football team play all their lives. They fight, chant, laugh and get drunk - and they hold tightly on to their close friendship. Danny, who when he’s not with Lee spends his time looking after his invalid mother, desperately tries to keep Lee to himself. But when Lee gets a new girlfriend, and announces he’s planning to join the army, both their worlds slowly start to change. 'Til I Die is a play about growing up, the problems of love and loyalty, and the nature of a passionate friendship.

Our Review:

9 September 2009

It takes a degree of devotion to be a football supporter, particularly when your club is in the third division. Danny and Lee have been Rangers fans for as long as they can remember and their loyalty is certainly not in doubt. The play opens with them bursting onto the stage hurling expletives at the opposition. Whether they are fighting with rival fans, shouting abuse at the ref or waiting with dogged patience each week for the bus to and from the match, their fierce brand of team loyalty runs throughout the play.

’Til I Die is not about football however. It is an exploration of the bond between two friends. The devotion they feel for their team is its outward expression: football gives them a reason to be together and the pattern of bus journeys, matches, drinking and fighting is what fills their lives. Lee was introduced to the team by his uncle and he, in turn, has been a role model for Danny, whose mother admits that he “couldn’t ...

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Latest User Review

Matt - 23 September 2009:

Saw this last Friday and thinking of going again with other friends before it finishes this weekend. Felt that the two actors could have been better cast in the opposite roles, but they were still excellent and the two supporting roles brilliantly played too. Short, snappy, an enjoyable hour or so which works very well and is engaging without going over the top....

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