Seven passengers meet in the saloon bar of a ship as it sets sail from an unidentified English port. Socialite Mrs Cliveden-Banks is on her way to join her husband, a Colonel in the army; Mr Lingley has important business in Marseilles; charlady Mrs Midget is making her first passage by sea; Reverend William Duke is looking forward to a holiday, while Tom Prior intends to spend the journey in the ship's saloon bar. Also on board are Henry and Ann, a young couple who seem anxious for the ship to leave port. But the travellers have more in common than they dare to suspect. Out at sea, an eerie calm settles over the ship as Tom is the first to discover the fate which awaits his fellow passengers... Outward Bound originally opened at a London Off West End theatre in 1923, and played for many years in London s West End. It was followed up with a Broadway transfer and made into a Hollywood film in 1930. It was filmed again as Between Two Worlds in 1944 with John Garfield and Sydney Greenstreet. This production is the first London production in more than fifty years, and returns the play to the same type of Off West End theatre where it began its life.
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...justifies revival... Vane is clearly saying something about a 1920s England riddled with social injustice and spiritual ennui... [Louise Hill's production] gets the play dead right. --The Guardian
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Playwright Sutton Vane (1888 1963) was a British actor and playwright. He started his career as an actor until the outbreak of the First World War. He joined up in 1914 at the age of 26 and served until he was invalided out due to shell-shock. Vane was haunted by his war experiences, and once he sufficiently recovered, he returned to the combat area as a civilian, appearing for the entertainment of troops near the front lines during the latter half of the war. After the Armistice, Vane turned to writing plays, and authored two conventional works that caused little stir. Outward Bound was his third play and the work for which he is now remembered.
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Classic play with a good twist in the tail not dated like other twenties pieces full of good prinicipal characters
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dated but a good, balanced rather charming play
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This was a significant play in it's time. While a bit dated, it would be a good "little theatre choice.
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