A Boisterous ‘Low Road’ Finds the Potholes in Capitalism
Ben BrantleyMarch 7, 2018: Can a 21st-century writer of topical take-no-prisoners satires find happiness in the quaint but rollicking form of the 18th-century picaresque?
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NY TIMES
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- Opening Night:
- March 7, 2018
- Closing:
- April 1, 2018
Theater: Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall / 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan, New York, 10013
Synopsis:BUY TICKETS BUY GROUP TICKETSSet in the 18th century, this wild new work imagines America’s first laissez-faire capitalist, a young man inspired by a chance encounter with Adam Smith to put his faith in the free market. But his path to riches becomes inextricably entangled with that of an educated slave, a man who knows from experience that one person's profit is another’s loss, in this parable about the true cost of inequality.
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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF The Low Road
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