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Sufficient Carbohydrate
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 3m
Dennis Potter
This was Potter's first original stage play.
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Cast Size
2f, 3m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
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.
History
Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage Centre, London on 7th December 1983. It transferred to the Albery Theatre on 31st January 1984.
Performing Groups
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting A Greek Island, holiday resort.
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- Alcohol
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.