“Not a Game for Boys” Craic Arts Centre 19th March 2011

It’s 1995 … Three taxi men, a gun and a table tennis game. Eric, Oscar and Tony are taxi drivers. They escape one evening each week to play table tennis as a team in a local amateur league. Eric would rather die than be relegated to division two. Oscar has just attendeed a funeral and fears his unmarried, lonely life mirrors that of his deceased colleague. Tony’s casual affair in the back of his taxi is threatening to destroy not only his relationship, but his friendships … and the future of the team. ‘Not A Game For Boys’ is a laugh-out-loud comedy: a tale of competitive obsessions, played out in a small hall on a back street of Belfast. Although the characters play with bats and balls, the main game takes place anywhere but the table.