A couple of years ago there was an unsurprising glut of plays about evil bankers; Miran Hadzic's full-length debut looks at one who'd rather not be so evil any more.
The Love & Devotion of Ridley Smith follows the eponymous investment banker (Tom Machell) as, encouraged by his boss, he goes ahead with the sale of some stock he knows is toxic, to a man he knows can ill afford to take the fall. The sale is a triumph for Ridley and his company but the man he offloaded it onto kills himself when the truth comes out. His boss Janet (Terry Diab) breaks this news as if it's a minor detail, but it crushes Ridley. Having befriended a possibly-homeless street artist, with a steady supply of sayings about possessions being meaningless, Ridley quits his job and asks Freddie (Stewart Lockwood) to take him out into the countryside and teach him how to be an artist.
