Although I am writing this over two months after seeing The Invisible Hand, the play is still quite vivid in my memory. The tale is of an American banker who has been kidnapped in Pakistan and is confined to a shed. There he engages positively with some of his captors while others are more suspicious of him. He strikes a deal that he will trade his way to saving his life, employing his knowledge of the money markets. But this has a sinister edge, as the trader and one of his captors make use of the inside information of future acts of terrorism to trade his way to success.
The play captured well the amoral nature of the market as well as the seemingly whimsical nature of one's fate in captivity. A particularly strong moment is when one of the captors is accused of collaborating with the prisoner.
I'm not sure this play provoked a major new direction of thinking for me but it certainly conveyed extremely well the situation in the cell. It was very well acted and the direction was excellent. The bright light that masked the scene changes was particularly effective.
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