Six plays by Colin Welland

'If you want to do something constructive about your creeping senility then I'm with you all the way - but don't ask me to take a six-weeks' slimming bout seriously when it's just to ease your adolescent pride.' At 42, Mel thinks he has found the secret of eternal middle-age; but when his fragile maturity is mocked by an old rugby rival, he can't resist the challenge of one more match...