OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Alun Owen 

• Setting

  A Dockside Pub in Liverpool and A Flat in Central London.

• Synopsis

  A double bill, the first, "The Looser" is set in a squalid dockside pub in Liverpool. The player of the title role is a young Welsh sailor, an untouched innocent, who gets tangled up with a couple of Scousettes. The second part, "The Winner", has a Noel Coward West-End setting with a lapsed husband returning to his luxury apartment finding his ex-wife in the arms of a stuffy escort.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  6

• Female

  3

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  27 September 1965

• Production Notes

  Produced by York Productions

• Producer

  In association with Dublin Theatre Festival

• Original Venue

  Gaiety Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The sources for this entry are the company programme and contemporary press cuttings.