‘Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered’, warns Bright, quoting a Wall Street maxim about controlling greed. But his violent disdain for Western capitalist imperialism begins to blunt as he discovers the addictive power of dealing. Go ahead, read that again.īashir is an English Pakistani Muslim who’s given up a ‘soft’ life in Hounslow to ‘fight for something meaningful’. Handily for those whose economics education began and ended with ‘Enron’, this includes a sub-lesson in the play’s title: ‘the invisible hand’ is the theory that the market is guided and stabilised by the corrective interaction of everyone’s private self-interest. So he tutors his young captor Bashir (Parth Thakerar) in the dark arts of commodity futures trading. Bright (Daniel Lapaine) isn’t allowed near a computer. So, in his sweat-smirched shirt sleeves, Nick Bright makes a deal: he’ll raise his own ransom by playing the stock market from his cell.Ĭue a mentoring alliance even more unlikely than Walter White teaching Jesse Pinkman to cook meth. They want $10million for his freedom, but the US government won’t negotiate. An American investment banker has been captured by Islamic fundamentalists. That’s the mordantly funny set-up for Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play, for which the Tricycle has scooped the UK premiere. Imagine a Wall Street trading desk transplanted to a terrorist bunker in Pakistan. ‘The Invisible Hand’ is revived, partially recast, for 2021.
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