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The Power of Yes
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Play 2: Buy tickets online Lyttelton Theatre Nearest Tube: Waterloo |
Show times Runs 1 hour and 45 minutes with no interval Seat prices |
The National Theatre presents David Hare's play The Power of Yes in London at the Lyttelton Theatre, returning after a critically acclaimed sell-out run in 2009.
The Power of Yes - a dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis.
On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines, this spring the National Theatre asked David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work to be staged this autumn that sought to find out what had happened, and why.
Meeting with many of the key players from the financial world, David Hare, author of The Permanent Way and Stuff Happens, has created The Power of Yes: a compelling narrative, as enlightening as it is entertaining.
Not so much a play as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone.
The Power of Yes in London at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre previewed from 29 September 2009, opened on 6 October 2009 and closes on 18 April 2010.
