THE INVISIBLE HAND

by AYAD AKHTAR

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This production ran from 1 – 31 July 2021.

‘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?

Following a sold out run in 2016, Kiln Theatre Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham directs the first major revival of Ayad Akhtar’s tense, thrilling and ‘fiendishly clever’ (Financial Times) The Invisible Hand.

Ayad Akhtar (Barack Obama Favourite Books 2020 Homeland Elegies) 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.

Artwork design by MUSE Creative Communications

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Age Guidance 14+
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Post Show Discussion with members of the cast, Director Indhu Rubasingham and Assistant Director Tom Wright, 13 July – 7.30pm
Audio Described Performance, 15 July – 7.30pm
Captioned Performance, 26 July – 7.30pm

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Ticket Prices

£15-£32.50

Duration

2 hours including a 15 minute interval

‘This really is edge-of-your-seat theatre. Since 2016, Brexit negotiations, Trump’s presidency and Biden’s subsequent election, and the pandemic have shifted the dynamics of global politics, and made the play even more timely’

- The Telegraph

‘Ayad Akhtar’s chillingly ingenious play. Indhu Rubasingham excels in her directorial signatures of pacy staging combined with clarity of narrative and characterisation. Ticket recommendation – buy, buy, buy’

- The Guardian

‘Rubasingham’s return to The Invisible Hand lends it urgency by paring away at the text and adding new references to the Trump-era US. The world has changed, but this story of self-interest in a time of crisis still bites’

- Financial Times

‘The sort of juicy, thorny, knotty one-room play that gets the blood pumping’

- Whats On Stage