Can you make a compelling play about economics? The Lehman Trilogy tries – but ultimately comes up short
- Written by: Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Daniel Boud“Can’t move ‘em with a cold thing, like economics.”
So says the modernist, Ezra Pound, in the first section of his epic poem, The Cantos.
This is something I kept coming back to while watching Stefano Massini’s five-time Tony Award-winning play, The Lehman Trilogy.
Opening in 1844 and and closing in 2008,...