Description

A British businessman and his American counterpart take a holiday with their wives on a Greek island. They are both employed by the same multi-national food processing company.

The play explores the competitive relationship which develops between the two men. Barker, the older man, has allowed his family business to be taken over by the American-owned multi-national, Greenace. Vosper is his senior colleague. Potter uses the scenario to express his long-standing aversion to the inroads which global American commercial culture makes on other cultures, England’s in particular.

(Compare this with Potter’s polemical writings in The Glittering Coffin and The Changing Forest.)