Coming Soon: For My Girlfriend

The For My Girlfriend play was commissioned by Cambridgeshire County Council’s Road Safety Department as part of the 2009 national road safety campaign and features a fatal road traffic collision in which a young male driver kills his girlfriend. Fusing fact, fiction, music, physical theatre, audience participation, projections and real-life accounts from the emergency services, the play showcases the wider effect of a fatal collision. From the mundane problem of a traffic jam to the devastating emotional consequences of losing a loved one. For many characters, it’s just another day, but for the parents and friends directly involved, their lives are changed forever in an instant. 

Since 2009, the play has successfully toured to FE colleges and schools around Cambridgeshire, RAF bases and local theatres to spread the road safety message ‘Don’t hurt the one you love.’ Chris Smith, a Paramedic with the London Ambulance Service, visited Long Road to take the student actors through a road traffic collision scenario.  

The Council’s Road Safety Team say, “Young male drivers are significantly overrepresented in casualty figures across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and indeed across the country. Changing attitudes and driving behaviour in this age group has always proved to be very difficult, but For My Girlfriend encourages young male drivers to consider not just their own safety, but that of their fellow passengers.”

This performance supports the work of The Road Victim’s Trust, a registered charity that provides free emotional and practical support to all persons affected by a road death across Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. To find out more about the work of the Trust, 
please visit www.rvtrust.org.uk.