SuTCo
06-09-2010, 00:02
Sheffield University Theatre Company will be performing
Gasping by Ben Elton
22nd - 25th September 2010
Doors open at 7pm for Curtain at 7.30pm
University Drama Studio,
Glossop Road,
S10 2TN
Tickets;
Wed - All £4,
Thu - Sat - £6 full / £5 concessions (senior citizens, unwaged, under 18's, students)
Reserve tickets online (see signature) and pay on the door, or call;
0114 222 8676
SYNOPSIS
A Raucous comedy.
Lockheart Industries are looking for a new product to make them huge sums of money. Their whizz-kid Philip comes up with the superb idea of designer air – Perrier for the lungs, in the form of their patent-pending Suck and Blow machine.
For a while, all is well, and the machines are a huge success, as sales massively exceed all projections. But greed forces the price of air upward until the oxygen industry becomes privatised. As demand outstrips supply, Lockheart Industries plunders the Third World for resources.
If you can’t afford to pay, you have no right to live. Philip’s conscience ultimately wins through at the end of the day, and he takes extreme measures to rectify everything he feels he has destroyed.
“Gasping is a satire on big business, the media, yuppiedom and product exploitation of the 1980s.”
Gasping by Ben Elton
22nd - 25th September 2010
Doors open at 7pm for Curtain at 7.30pm
University Drama Studio,
Glossop Road,
S10 2TN
Tickets;
Wed - All £4,
Thu - Sat - £6 full / £5 concessions (senior citizens, unwaged, under 18's, students)
Reserve tickets online (see signature) and pay on the door, or call;
0114 222 8676
SYNOPSIS
A Raucous comedy.
Lockheart Industries are looking for a new product to make them huge sums of money. Their whizz-kid Philip comes up with the superb idea of designer air – Perrier for the lungs, in the form of their patent-pending Suck and Blow machine.
For a while, all is well, and the machines are a huge success, as sales massively exceed all projections. But greed forces the price of air upward until the oxygen industry becomes privatised. As demand outstrips supply, Lockheart Industries plunders the Third World for resources.
If you can’t afford to pay, you have no right to live. Philip’s conscience ultimately wins through at the end of the day, and he takes extreme measures to rectify everything he feels he has destroyed.
“Gasping is a satire on big business, the media, yuppiedom and product exploitation of the 1980s.”