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
businessin 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 incommon than they dare
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 was one of the biggest West End and Broadway hits of the
1920s and was twice filmed. Its production at the Finborough Theatre in
2012 marks its first London run in more than fifty years.