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 Elliott
Director
Nigel Kneale
Writer
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
Seeds of Yesterday64%
Hello63%
Light of My Life64%
Cheaters63%
TalhotBlond63%
Girl in the Box67%
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods72%
Inherit the Wind63%
Doctor Who: Deep Breath77%
The Mandela Effect63%
Harrison Bergeron67%
Burton and Taylor62%
Doctor Who62%
Normal66%
Attack on Titan59%
Collision Earth58%
The Neighbor in the Window72%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Roswell60%
Dr. Strange61%
