The traffic on the freeway has come to a complete standstill. Four elderly travellers step out of their mobile home to stretch their legs. Another couple are getting out of their estate car and picnicking on the verge. Another man returns to his wife, children and sports car from his reconnaissance of the traffic jam. But what begins as an inconvenience - easily taken in the stride of the resourceful British motorist - becomes rather more desperate as the days wear on and there is no way of going anywhere. Three very different sets of people try to keep their spirits up as the picnics run out, and wonder if this is the fair price of modern mobility. The Freeway was first presented at the Old Vic in 1974.