The Love of Humankind

We join acid-tongued Rodney and friends in a run-down ex-council flat to celebrate fellow alcoholic Mark Smith's 70th birthday, with vodka, 'jazz cigarettes' and a stripper called Trixie.

"By the neatly managed conclusion," comments Listener critic Harry Ricketts, "Sergent, both as dramatist and actor, has pulled off a remarkable tour de force. He thoroughly deserved his standing ovation."