vienna theatre project presents the PULITZER Prize for Drama Winner 2013 & Tony Award Play-writing Winner in Theater Drachengasse Bar &Co AYAD Akhtar with his piece „THE INVISIBLE HAND“. A fascinating ride through the world of terrorism and high finance.
An astounding cast will entrall audiences this February as vienna theatre project once again tackles current events head on. Islamophobia, terrorisism, Western involvement in the Middle Eastern crisis and how economics can influence policies and governments; can even so far as to topple societies. The fascinating play is filled with irony and dangerous philosophy. In this game, no one is a winner but everyone believes they are in the right.
Pulitzer Prize winning Ayad Akhtar (Disgraced) brings us another brilliant masterpiece to the stage in this European Premiere. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A highly successful player at a major investment bank, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating for his release, the prisoner must take matters into his own hands. Full of questionable alliances and moral bargaining, this world premiere – New York 2015 - is a chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make.
Be perplexed as Nick decides to take his survival into his own hands and battles it out; even making friends with a young fundamentalist who is easily influenced, by a seasoned, more dangerous terrorist and their mentor, Imam Saleem. But is Nick’s fight for life filled with good moral intentions? What is Bashir’s game? Who is the usurped and who is the usurper? A play that questions everything you have thought about the current crisis and will make you leave the theatre discussing the ethics of what you’d do and how far you’d go in an impossible situation.
