Lockheart Industries are making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart is looking for next Big Thing. Whizz-kid sales executive Philip comes up with a winning idea: selling designer air as a privatised alternative yet polluted urban fug. The marketing phenomenon of the decade has arrived and sales massively exceed all projections. But what happens when greed threatens not only big business but life itself?
Ben Elton’s debut play, first performed at London’s Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1990, is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. |
