FROM JOHN COLLIER
MILLBROOK THEATRE
If you have ever wanted to try your hand at acting, now is your chance. With a cast of 19 men and 1 woman if you are male over the age of 16 you are almost assured of being cast.
Come on out and try out for a play that hasn’t been done in the area.
Mister Roberts is a 1948 play based on the 1946 Thomas Heggen novel of the same name.
This rowdy, realistic saga of a group of American sailors aboard a Navy cargo vessel in the Pacific shows the crew suffering from that deadly boredom that is part of the routine of war. To the ship’s company, the Skipper is a cantankerous, small-minded man and every one of them conspires against him as the ship pursued its runs from Apathy to Tedium and back again. They are on a cargo mission, so little else is going to happen. That Mr. Roberts shared the crew’s dislike for the Captain was one reason for his popularity. Roberts joined the world to fight; he hates being inactive almost as much as he hates the Captain.
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