There have been some high-profile dramas about the fiscal greed and corruption that preceded or precipitated the 2008 financial crisis, from The Lehman Trilogy to Enron. James Graham’s musical, premiering at the Edinburgh international festival, is at least as epic, even if it bites off more than it can possibly chew.
It takes us back to the real-life drama of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the government bailout after its collapse. Fred Goodwin was CEO and the bank had such a meteoric rise under his tenure that it claimed to be the largest in the world.
