Gasping
by Ben Elton

6 - 11 June

Comedy directed by Michael Bate

Lockheart Industries are making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart is looking for the buzz given by a new way to make money where no money existed before. Philip, his pushy workaholic exec. suggests selling designer air – Perrier for the nostrils – as a privatised alternative to polluted urban fog.

The marketing phenomenon of the decade has arrived and millions are quickly made! However, given the human penchant for ‘storing for a rainy day’ oxygen runs low and new supplies have to be found. The Third World is plundered for its resources creating a greater divide between the ’haves’ and the ‘have nots’. The world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive….