James Wallace is at the theatre

"Eight years in the making, premiering last night, Sam Brooks’ new black comedy A Rich Man confronts us with an unusually complex menage a quatre confronting, and evading, some difficult choices about the future and their past. ...

"Slowly, the story is revealed. It might shock. The ghost, or at least the memory, of a recently convicted arts patron seems to hang over the tale. “When I first wrote it,” says Brook, “it felt like it was too soon, but I think the arts community is finally ready to have these conversations about exploitation, complicity, and what silence costs the most vulnerable people in our society.” (Though do note the play’s disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.”)

"This is people behaving badly. All of them."

~ REVIEW AT 13th Floor: A Rich Man – by Sam Brooks: Old Folks Association: 5-9 August (13th Floor Theatre Review)