My latest play, an every day story of hedge fund
traders charting the stormy waters of economic meltdown.
Going Short
Richard is in the closet. He hasn’t told his boyfriend Tim that he’s a hedge fund trader and Tim hasn’t told his mother, Dorothy, that he’s a male escort. When Dorothy discovers that her son has a boyfriend who is gambling with her pension she isn’t too pleased. And who is the mysterious woman eavesdropping on them and why is she wrapped in brown paper? Going Short is a contemporary story of trade in the bedroom and turmoil in the market place. Based on the current instability of the international financial system, it explains what a hedge fund is with a rabbit and a hat (and your money). The shit really hits the fan when Julie Andrews sings 'these are a few of my favourite things'.
Going Short
by Richard Roques
Richard is in the closet. He hasn’t told his boyfriend Tim that he’s a hedge fund trader and Tim hasn’t told his mother, Dorothy, that he’s a male escort. When Dorothy discovers that her son has a boyfriend who is gambling with her pension she isn’t too pleased. And who is the mysterious woman eavesdropping on them and why is she wrapped in brown paper? Going Short is a contemporary story of trade in the bedroom and turmoil in the market place. Based on the current instability of the international financial system, it explains what a hedge fund is with a rabbit and a hat (and your money). The shit really hits the fan when Julie Andrews sings 'these are a few of my favourite things'.
The play was presented at a
rehearsed reading in July with the following cast: Fenella
Fielding, Susan McGoun, Andrew Hallett, Tom
Hutchinson and
Ed Cooper-Clarke.
For more information
email author@thehistoryoflondon.com
Ed Cooper-Clarke.
For more information
email author@thehistoryoflondon.com
