Designer Moi Tran has given us essential changes of scene from the salt lake locomotive to board rooms and hotel meeting rooms also using line lighting across the stage to delineate a change.  Lee Curran’s lighting and Ella Wahlström’s sound design are well thought out to enhance the complexity of this play’s many locations. 

Director Hamish Pirie, with experience at Paines Plough, the Donmar and the Traverse as well as the Royal Court, directs this large company and gets excellent performances from his diverse cast.  Arthur Darvill, as Henry Finn, often Americanised to Hank, chamaeleon-like has the entrepreneurial ability, like Bill Gates or Elon Musk, to re-invent himself while focusing on the quest for success.

This is not a short play coming in at three hours ten minutes but it kept my attention throughout, helped by incongruous yet joyful dances to Carlos Guitiérrez Quiroga’s music, between scene changes lightening the production.  There is also lots to laugh at, not least Henry’s attempt at Spanish, “Soy Bean Americano” when of course those from South America also count themselves as Americans.  Henry’s PA Jo (Lesley Lemon) also speaks the most amusing misplaced Spanish. 

So here we have that sought after production, a play with interesting characters, real issues including the environment with a clarity of debate and potential outcomes.