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Gasping

  • Ben Elton
  • Full Length Play, Comedy
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573017735

The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation.

Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. The world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive.

REVIEWS:

"A poisonously funny morality play... A remarkable debut."

 London Sunday Times

"A sharp witted satire... Extremely funny."

 Independent 

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

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The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn, Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation.

Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. The world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive.

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