The Year of the Sex Olympics

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Leonard Rossiter

Co-ordinator Ugo Priest

Age : 57 | Popularity : 10%

Brian Cox

Lasar Opie

Age : 77 | Popularity : 38%

Tony Vogel

Nat Mender

Age : 73 | Popularity : 6%

Susan Neve

Deanie Webb

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Vickery Turner

Misch

Age : 66 | Popularity : 3%

George Murcell

Grels

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

Martin Potter

Kin Hodder

Age : 79 | Popularity : 5%

Lesley Roach

Keten Webb

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Nigel Kneale
Directing	Director	Michael Elliott
Production	Producer	Ronald Travers
Department	Role	Name

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