Six avaricious monomaniacs, “Delta One”, bankrupt an upstart hedge-fund on a bad bet. Up went down. High turned low. Catastrophe. Their teflon grinners-are-winners facade shatters in an inferno of recrimination and panic (a veritable Bonfire of the Vanities). Wale goddess!
Inspired by the 2008 loss of 5 billion Euro on the futures market by Jerome Kerviel, Trade is an unpolished allegory of moral and intellectual collapse. Performed on a minimalist well leveraged set, Trade establishes with some elegance a balletic reality of office cubicles and competing egos under the relentless pressure of financial gambling. But as crisis intensifies our embattled nouveau-riche exemplars show little beyond venality, despair and an expensive cocaine-habit. Absent a plot per se Trade devolves into a rat-a-touille of scenes of varying emotion and merit.
Too experimental to praise unequivocally, Trade is nonetheless acted with talent and invention. I look forward to seeing it reworked in 2016.
Hurrah Hurrah presents
Trade
created by Alison Bennett, Dymphna Carew, Alison Windsor, Naomi Livingstone and Cheyne Finn
Venue: The Old 505 Theatre | 505, 34 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
Dates: 12 – 17 May 2015
Tickets: $33 – $2
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