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Labyrinth
"A racily exciting work that offers the most compelling theatrical study of high finance since Lucy Prebble’s Enron - Guardian
"A fizzing play by the ultra-talented Beth Steel… There’s a great vroom vroom to this play, an energy that lifts it out of the ordinary." - The Times
1978, New York. John Anderson is barely out of college and has landed himself a job on Wall Street. His dreams of unimaginable wealth, travel and power are made a reality as he jets around the globe selling loans to developing countries eager to borrow. And there are plenty – Mexico, Brazil, Argentina…
But cracks in the banks’ excessive lending strategy soon start to show. Despite the warning signs – and their consciences – John and his colleagues continue to pursue their targets, threatening to leave them all financially, and morally, bankrupt.
Labyrinth premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2016.
"A fizzing play by the ultra-talented Beth Steel… There’s a great vroom vroom to this play, an energy that lifts it out of the ordinary." - The Times
1978, New York. John Anderson is barely out of college and has landed himself a job on Wall Street. His dreams of unimaginable wealth, travel and power are made a reality as he jets around the globe selling loans to developing countries eager to borrow. And there are plenty – Mexico, Brazil, Argentina…
But cracks in the banks’ excessive lending strategy soon start to show. Despite the warning signs – and their consciences – John and his colleagues continue to pursue their targets, threatening to leave them all financially, and morally, bankrupt.
Labyrinth premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2016.
128 pages, Paperback
Published June 26, 2018
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Beth Steel
8 books4 followersBeth Steel’s first play Ditch premiered at the HighTide Festival before transferring to the Old Vic Tunnels. Ditch was shortlisted for the John Whiting Award. Wonderland, her second play, was performed at Hampstead Theatre and won her the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. Her third play, Labyrinth opened at the Hampstead Theatre in 2016.
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October 29, 2023
4.5, rounded up.
I haven't fared too well with previous plays investigating high finance (Enron; Junk), as I felt I needed an MBA to even begin to understand the action. Not so with this swift moving, very funny and yet intensely informative investigation into the 1982 Latin American banking/loan crisis. And come on - how could you NOT love a play that includes a full-size seal and penguin having sex in a bathroom stall as part of the protagonist's coke-fueled hallucinations?
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/201...
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I haven't fared too well with previous plays investigating high finance (Enron; Junk), as I felt I needed an MBA to even begin to understand the action. Not so with this swift moving, very funny and yet intensely informative investigation into the 1982 Latin American banking/loan crisis. And come on - how could you NOT love a play that includes a full-size seal and penguin having sex in a bathroom stall as part of the protagonist's coke-fueled hallucinations?
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/201...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/201...
https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/rev...
https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/revie...
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