The Pinstripe Trilogy - Matador/The Bean Counter/Trust Fund

Synopsis

In Matador, a last trader stands in the ruins of the collapsed finance industry performing his swansong. As his world crumbles around him, the Matador tries makes one last deal with the audience. Across the corridor, The Bean Counter sits in the tax office, trying to find a way to fill the hole in our country's pockets. Making decisions that no-one else wants to, he tries to avoid his own gaze in the mirror as he realises he can't enforce the rules he worships. A remnant of economic hope is found in Trust Fund, where offer the audience the unique opportunity to invest in our most precious resource - our children. The future generations are our country's greatest asset, and surely the best way for us to enable them to meet their potential is to privatise childhood? Born of frustration, anger and a sense of powerlessness of the individual caught in a society driven by the market and a failing economy, these performances have been developed over the last two years through Theatre Delicatessen's Associate Artist scheme. This is the first time that these three pieces will be performed together and in their entirety.

Our Review:

8 February 2013

Theatre Delicatessen’s current pop-up theatre space amongst the classy shops and restaurants of Marylebone High Street feels like an ideal setting for their latest offering in association with The Lab Collective, The Pinstripe Trilogy, which examines the world of high finance.

In the first play Matador it’s the life of a smart suited city trader – played engagingly by Neil Connolly - that’s under scrutiny. Holding his jacket to expose its red silk lining he makes passes at an imaginary bull before inviting the audience from the dark corners of the room to join him in the light. It’s an intimate encounter with his world of expense account lunches and sports cars as he throws questions at the audience and uses their first names. His world is built upon the now despised debt trading and so far all feels familiar. However when he reminds the audience that they are consumers too and have him to thank for the credit boom that made their...

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