The Epic Theater of Thomas Piketty/ Epski teater Thomasa Pikettyja
Not long ago, it would have been unimaginable that one of the fastest selling out “performances” in a national theatre would be a lecture by an economist; that around a thousand people would buy tickets in a single day and then eagerly await a man who, in an English softened by a French accent, was going to speak of political economy instead of love, show prosaic graphs instead of artistic video projections and attempt to offer insight instead of catharsis.