Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.
Directed by Michael Elliott
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Cast
Leonard Rossiter
Co-ordinator Ugo Priest
Brian Cox
Lasar Opie
Tony Vogel
Nat Mender
Suzanne Neve
Deanie Webb
Vickery Turner
Misch
George Murcell
Grels
Martin Potter
Kin Hodder
Lesley Roach
Keten Webb
Hira Talfrey
Betty
Patricia Maynard
Nurse
Trevor Peacock
Custard Pie Expert
Brian Coburn
Custard Pie Expert
Derek Fowlds
Custard Pie Expert
Wolfe Morris
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