This play, by the author of PLENTY, is an ambitious work which brings together in heated discussion a young left wing journalist and a right wing expatriate Indian novelist. The settings are a Bombay hotel where they are attending a world poverty conference and the British film studio where the Indian author’s experiences are being turned into a film. Throughout the play, life and fiction overlap. One of the issues is the sexual jealousy that arises over the men’s competition for the favours of a promiscuous American actress staying at the hotel. Also on the agenda: idealism vs. cynicism; the West’s arrogance in its handling of Third World problems; the alleged evils of Zionism, and the journalist’s fervent belief in the necessity for change.
