Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

Cast

Bill Maynard

Clarence Hubbard

Donald Gee

John Chart

Aimée Delamain

Mrs Hubbard

John Carson

Joe

Joe Gladwin

Messenger

Dudley Jones

The Critic

Desmond Perry

Harold Bladdy