 The play is a musical fantasy set in a beach bar run by a bald-headed lesbian "barman" and peopled by whores of various sexes and their clientele, including a transvestite thieving vicar.His next play to be performed, "Spitting Image", also first appeared at Hampstead in October 1968 before moving to The Duke of York's in the West End.The production was directed by James Roose-Evans and starred Derek Fowlds, Frank Middlemass and Lally Bowers.