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.
Dennis Potter
Writer
Barry Davis
Director
Bill Maynard
Clarence Hubbard
Donald Gee
John Chart
Aimée Delamain
Mrs Hubbard
John Carson
Joe
Dudley Jones
The Critic
Desmond Perry
Harold Bladdy
Joe Gladwin
Messenger
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