Corporations
dominate society, pleasure is found only in shopping, consumption is
the only form of civic participation, people are numbed and brainwashed
by advertising, life has no meaning beyond profit and purchasing power…
Is this a satire?
Trapped in a society dominated by a handful of companies that are rapidly
merging into one giant conglomerate, the Citizen has begun to feel that
Life™ as a materialistic corporate consumer cog isn't turning out
as advertised. Life™ seems to mean only working to buying more
things and everyone is on Prozocom™, a drug that induces a haze
of purchasing pleasure. Fleeing a company assigned spouse more interested
in shopping and a good resume than having children, the Citizen begins
a journey through the anti-consumerist movement, meeting a guru of Karmic
Konsumption™ and a radical revolutionary bent on destroying the
corporate dominated system. Ultimately the Citizen is faced with a choice
between living life as consumer and employee, or as a human being. Sound
familiar? Not as seen on TV!
You
can download both the stage version
and the film version of the script
as a PDF.
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