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Sufficient Carbohydrate

  • Dennis Potter
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: SFUK-64543

This was Potter's first original stage play.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Tours, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
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.)

Premiere Production: Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage Centre, London on 7th December, 1983. It transferred to the Albery Theatre on 31st January, 1984.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F

  • JACK BARKER
    EDDIE VOSPER
    ELIZABETH BARKER
    LUCY VOSPER
    CLAYTON VOSPER

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    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.)

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