The Year of the Sex Olympics

Release Date: 1968-07-29

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.

Rating: 4.25 / 10

Cast

Leonard Rossiter

as Co-ordinator Ugo Priest

Brian Cox

as Lasar Opie

Tony Vogel

as Nat Mender

Susan Neve

as Deanie Webb

Vickery Turner

as Misch