Brian Cox will star in 'Make It Happen', a new play exploring the origins of the 2008 financial crisis, tracing its roots back to the Scottish Enlightenment and Adam Smith. The play will premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in August.
will return to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade to play the ghost of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, a role he created for himself, in the first major drama to tell the story of Royal Bank of Scotland ’s role in the 2008 financial crash.
Graham said he was drawn to write about the “long shadow” of the crash and “our inability to reset” after such a catastrophic global event.It did not result in “a moment of interrogation and the introduction of a new idea”, he said, but rather “we crawled along in the same model”, with resulting unintended consequences including Brexit and the forces that re-elected Donald Trump in the US.
Make It Happen is directed by Andrew Panton, the artistic director of Dundee Rep theatre, where Cox trained as a young actor. The play will preview at the theatre in July, before opening the Edinburgh international festival in August. Graham, who has been celebrated for his treatment of themes within recent social and political history, including the miners’ strike, Brexit and gang culture, believes in the value of theatre in allowing people to examine the nuance of past events that are remembered as purely binary, and offering a rare moment of pause amid an information deluge.
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