Gasping

Synopsis

A play

Little Theatre Comedy Ben Elton Characters: 3 male, 3 female Interior Set 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.

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

London Sunday Times.

"A sharp witted satire....

Extremely funny."

Independent.