NYTimes.com: The global financial crisis of 2008 spread its pain far and wide, but it delivered a particularly stinging wallop to the tiny island country of Iceland, where a speculative banking bubble in the 2000s lent its people an unsustainable prosperity before bursting with gale-force shock. You can read the financial pages to chart the country’s recovery since, or you can head to the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village, where a troupe of Icelanders has been hunkered down since mid-June, making an odd new rock musical with an American cast and a British choreographer.
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This idea is very interesting-I like that they are trying to reflect on the financial crash without having to explain all of the financial terms that can make the play boring. I'm not sure about the concept, as it does bring Seuss to mind, but I hope that the show can accurately bring the issues they think are important to light in the setting they have chosen. Hopefully the strangeness of the world will not overshadow the story behind it.
I love that a show is being produced about a current issue in our current time. Often shows about a controversial, or heated issue are not presented until that topic has been studied, has passed, and left its mark. For example, it follows the paths of Rent and Next to Normal. These shows demonstrated the issues of AIDS and mental health respectfully in a very powerful way. These shows were presented at the right time so awareness was brought up while we could still fight or fix the issue. I would like to see this show solely to see how effective it is in delivering its message.
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