This programme consists of two virtuoso pieces - one set in a barber's salon, the other in a tea shop. Both are tragi-comedies.

The evening is concerned with the gradual revelation of the private problems of people in unusual public situations - a man under a barber's scissors and an entire ladies' tea shop orchestra in the middle of a performance.

Monsieur Barnett was commissioned as a television play by the BBC for their forthcoming series Fear. The present version has been especially adapted for the stage.