Invitation: 'Economics Of Good & Evil', Theatre Performance Budapest, 26 April
- 18 Apr 2013 10:35 AM
Does it pay to be good? Does economics trump ethics? 300 pages of Tomas Sedlacek’s bestseller are condensed into a theatre performance taking the audience on an exciting journey across economic thinking. In this experimental collage of movement, grotesque sketches and musical numbers viewers will see Gilgamesh, Epicuros and Adam Smith, and hear the words of Moses and contemporary philosophers. Sedlacek, named one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, features as an actor and also as a provocative moderator of debate when the audience is engaged to co-define a new meaning for economics.
The show had over 120 repeats in various Czech theaters and sold out The National Theater in Prague. An international tour (Berlin, Bucharest, London, Helsinki, Brussels, Luxembourg), featuring Tomas Sedláček on stage, was launched in 2011 in English.
In his best-seller book,The Economics of Good and Evil (Hungarian edition by HVG Books), reviewed by the Financial Times and the Washington Post the as a "must-read", Sedlacek shows how economics is woven out of history, myth, religion and ethics.
An advisor to banks, ministers and presidents, such as the late Vaclav Havel, Sedlacek serves as the Chief Macroeconomic Strategist in the leading Czech bank CSOB and sits on the National Economic Council of the Czech government. A member of the Yale University World Fellowship, where he served as a fellow and lecturer, Sedlacek is the co-author of various case studies for Harvard and Georgetown, and a lecturer of economics and philosophy at Charles University, Prague. He is passionate about his work and he wants to show us that economics is more than just figures and abstract mathematical models.
Date: 26th of April, 2013., 19:00
Venue: Átrium Film-Színház
Address: 1024 Budapest, Margit körút 55.
Admission: 1700 HUF
with Tomáš Sedláček, Alan Novotný and Lukáš Hejlík
Directed by Lukáš Hejlík
Tickets: Átrium Film-Színház Box Office
Open: weekdays 10.00-20.00
Source and tickets: atriumfilmszinhaz.hu
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