Through song and dance, satire and send-ups of Television Network News, advertising and Game Shows, THINGY WORLD! exposes America's self-centered, all consuming materialistic way of life and how it has created a culture of waste and destruction. The play also exposes the way in which racism is an integral part of "the environmental crisis."

The play takes place at O.W.O.W TV where Tina Newsworthy and all the O.W.O.W. TV News Fantasy 90 reporters and staff, including weatherman--Barometer Bob, Periodicals Reporter--Luigi Magazini, and Fine Arts and High Culture Reporter--Nigel Fitchingfield have a go at reporting The American Way of Life. They give us the news, special reports from The All American Toy Fair, two exclusive interviews with The President as he discusses our great victory in Iropistan and what it means for the Free Market Economy, an exclusive interview with Mimi Mebaby, Editor-in-Chief of Self Now magazine and so on and so forth.

Also on O.W.O.W. TV is THINGY WORLD!--Everybody's favorite Game Show--where "you get what you want if you want it bad enough and where we always say 'The one with the most toys at the end, wins!'"--and starring game show host, Stan "The Man" Fanofferly with Lily White, Big Guy, Martha Greed and The THINGY WORLD! singers and dancers.

Although THINGY WORLD! is funny and bitingly satirical, in the end it is a sobering look at American greed and racism and how "the American way" has contributed to our current environmental crisis.

THINGY WORLD! calls for an interracial ensemble of variable size, and possibly extensive use of color transparencies on at least two rear projection screens, and prerecorded and live music. Running time: about 80 minutes more or less equally divided between two acts.

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