Synopsis

Robertson Davies here is once again concerned with the process of self-discovery. In this case the self-explorer is the Prime Minister of Canada, Peter Macadam, a man living a role that inevitably turns a private person into public property. As the play unfolds, Davies raises important questions about politics, the media, and a host of other subjects. But above all, his witty, urbane, and thought-provoking play is, as he says in his preface "about the relationship of the Canadian people to their soil, and about the relationship of man to his soul. We neglect both at our peril".