Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 27, 2025, 02:33:47 PM
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As an ex RBS employee looking forward to going to see this. At the time RBS bought ABN Amro I asked Fred Goodwin on an all staff call if it was the right decision given the Financial markers at the time to push ahead with it, and maybe we should hold off....
https://www.eif.co.uk/events/make-it-happen
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And off to see it tomorrow
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Really enjoyed though i think i may have been the sweet spot for the okay having worked at RBS for the entirety of the time Goodwin was there, and interest in the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish literature, and ancient Greek theatre. I found it surprisingly moving with the tragedy of so many people being based on at first the success and failure of Goodwin's vision.
I think that there are some flaws in the play with characters and scenes that I don't think add much but it is a rollicking ride and deals really well with the problem of having a lead character in Goodwin who is almost too boring to dramatise. Cox as Adam Smith has a role where he is free to steal the show, most paticularly when he first appears as himself rather than Smith.
The idea that Goodwin essentially encounters Smith as what looks like hallucination recalls Confessions of A Justified Sinner to the extent that it could be called Confessions of a Justified Banker.