Synopsis of Ben Elton's Gasping
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 up the price of air until the oxygen
industry becomes privatised. And 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 (and wreck the Suck And Blow machine).
Synopsis composed by Val Widdowson
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