The Year of the Sex Olympics ⁽¹⁹⁶⁸⁾

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Titre original :

The Year of the Sex Olympics

Durée :

1h 45min

Date de sortie :

July 1968

Réalisé par : Michael Elliott
Ecrit par : Nigel Kneale

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.