The action takes place in November on a small island in Derwentwater, with four British business men on a team-building weekend.
Four managers from a mineral water company based in Salford go on a team-building exercise in the English Lake District and become stranded on a wooded island.
Neville is the incompetent team leader, Angus a fussy perfectionist, Roy an unstable birdwatching Christian.
[2] A television film was produced in 1998, directed by Terry Johnson, with the following cast: The play was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1995.
[3] Michael Billington, writing in The Guardian in 2014, found that the play showed the influence of Alan Ayckbourn, reminding him of Way Upstream.