sentences:  The part of the doctor was specially created for George Devine, the artistic director of the English Stage Company and the man to whom Osborne most owed his success.Glen Byam Shaw, a long-time collaborator of Devine's (they created the Young Vic Company) was handed the role of Colonel Redfern.Two other members of the English Stage Company, Nigel Davenport and Alfred Lynch, were given small roles as commercial salesmen who try to pick up Alison and Helena in the railway station bar.