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6th March 2010, 8.25pm
Warwick Arts Centre
Warwick University
Coventry CV1 5
Tickets £10 (£8) online
A play about the 2008 financial collapse,
set in 17th Century Netherlands, inspired by Rembrandt, featuring
origami and paying homage to the great theatre maker Bertolt Brecht.
Tulips were imported into Europe in the early 17th Century at a time
when merchants were generating wealth by through trade. Collecting
exotic items was a fashion. A passion developed for tulips, their price
rose and as the price rose the possibility of making profit through
speculative buying of Tulips arose. For a brief time certain tulip bulbs
were sold for prices equivalent to those of a house, or three years of
a craftsman's wage. In 1637 this financial bubble burst.
Using as a model this Tulipmania, The Just Price of Flowers plots the growing
complexity and spiraling profits of contemorary high finance to the point of this
most recent bubble bursting in 2008.
This is an Austerity Production, made fast and cheap. It's aesthetic is drawn from
Rembrandt and theatrial form inspired by Bertolt Brecht. It should be fun.
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