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The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
Directed by Michael Elliott
Overview
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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Leonard Rossiter | Brian Cox | Derek Fowlds | Tony Vogel | Michael Feast | Martin Potter | Trevor Peacock | Wolfe Morris | George Murcell | Brian Coburn | Vickery Turner | Hira Talfrey | Susan Neve | Patricia Maynard | Lesley Roach | Job Stewart | Braham Murray | Sheila Sands | Eddie Sommer