The Invisible Hand
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:1st Jul '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A newly revised edition of Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar's play about the nature of greed which pits the pervasive philosophy of capitalism against Islamic fanaticism.
Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
You see we are prisoners of a corrupt country that is our own making. But don’t pretend you don’t participate. You do. Of course you do.
American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price. Confined to a cell in rural Pakistan, every second counts. Who will decide his fate? His captors, or the whims of the market?
Ayad Akhtar is a Pulitzer Prize-winner, two-time Tony Award-nominee and winner of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
This newly revised edition of The Invisible Hand is published to coincide with the first major revival at London's Kiln Theatre in July 2021.
Mr. Akhtar's play . . . makes a forceful point about the seemingly ineradicable terrorism roiling the Middle East. Inspired though it may be by religious ideology, it is necessarily fueled, like most other movements that drive cultural change, by the brute power of money * New York Times *
Somebody give this playwright a Pulitzer. Oh, right - Ayad Akhtar already has one, for a previous play, Disgraced . . . Although this new play continues the scribe's interest in the clashing ideologies of Americans and Muslims, The Invisible Hand is far more politically provocative * Variety *
The Invisible Hand has layers of delicious irony * Guardian *
- Nominated for Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre 2022 (UK)
ISBN: 9781350284050
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 8mm
Weight: 120g
112 pages