Target Audience - (Modern Plays) by Dan Bishop (Paperback)

About the Book

Target Audience is a dark comedy set in the near future, exploring the increasingly complex relationship between media, government and technology.

Book Synopsis

But I thought the parent company do 'data integration'? How is blowing us up 'data integration'?!

A TV production company gets word from Whitehall that they must adapt their programming to align with the government's new policy to rapidly prepare the country for war. Panicked, the producers offer writer Tobias an exorbitant amount of money to pen a 'pro-weapons sitcom', forcing him to choose between his morals and his mortgage. Target Audience is a sharp comic response to this ever-shifting landscape and our unstable world. This timely play uses humour to explore big ideas about safety, power and influence, as well as our instinct to protect ourselves and those closest to us.

This edition was published to coincide with production at the Pleasance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2026.

About the Author

Dan Bishop is a London-based playwright and screenwriter. Dan Bishop's debut comedy play Brainsluts sold out its entire run at The Pleasance Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, it was shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award and was a Charlie Hartill Finalist. Dan is also one half of sketch comedy double act Mudfish with Molly Windust. Mudfish were a runner up in the 2024 Sketch Off Final at Leicester Square Theatre and their 2022 show Might As Well received 5 Stars from The Student and 4 Stars from The Wee Review, EdFringe Review, Binge Fringe and Fringebiscuit. Alongside his live work, he has written for BBC's Newsjack, and was the lead writer on a BBC Studios' Earth Science 18-part online series. He is currently developing scripts for TV and Film.