The Year of the Sex Olympics

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.

• Michael ElliottDirector
• Nigel KnealeWriter

• Leonard RossiterCo-ordinator Ugo Priest
• Brian CoxLasar Opie
• Tony VogelNat Mender
• Susan NeveDeanie Webb
• Vickery TurnerMisch
• George MurcellGrels
• Martin PotterKin Hodder
• Lesley RoachKeten Webb
• Hira TalfreyBetty
• Patricia MaynardNurse
• Trevor PeacockCustard Pie Expert
• Brian CoburnCustard Pie Expert