Three Short Plays: Rococo, Vote by Ballot, Farerwell to Theatre:

These plays are tempered with the thin, keen edge of Barker's fastidious intellectualism. "Rococo" deals farcically with a quarrel over a vase in the family of an English vicar. "Vote by Ballot" is a variation of the old tune of politics and a commentary on the problematical usefulness of the ballot. Mr. Torpenhouse's remark to his friend Lord Silverwall epitomizes Barker's feeling: "The same old tune . . . different words to it. It didn't really seem to me that it could hurt England at all...