Beth Steel’s latest play, Labyrinth, painstakingly researched, is about the Latin-American debt crisis in the 1970’s and 1980’s in which everybody is bankrupt, financially and morally.
A young man (Sean Delaney), barely out of college, lands a job as a trainee in an international private bank. His innocence is soon corrupted by his greedy and blatantly dishonest mentor (Tom Weston-Jones).
If you have seen Lucy Prebble’s Enron on stage and if you have seen Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street and Margin Call on film, you may feel you do not need to see Labyrinth. Besides, the new play, though energetically directed, doesn’t have the emotional impact of Steel’s award-winning play about striking miners, Wonderland.