Bed and Breakfast sets up a perfectly reciprocal atmosphere of mistrust. Hosts and guests observe one another, interpret the slightest gesture and, from the flimsiest of clues, construct an increasingly disturbing narrative. By refusing to establish a stable point of view, the play places the audience at the centre of a game of shifting perspectives in which observers and observed constantly exchange positions. The revelation of a supposed inspection does not bring the game to an end: it blurs the boundary between fact, lie and projection even further.

Structured around two symmetrical couples, the four roles create a play of echoes in which every accusation ultimately comes back to the person who made it. Hosting someone, just like being hosted, imposes a role from which no one can break free without appearing rude, ungrateful or suspicious: each character thus becomes hostage to social conventions and to the story they have constructed about the other. The rural retreat turns into an enclosed space where fear of the stranger reveals above all the prejudices, frustrations and fantasies of those who feel it.