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My diary notes for this week include an interesting theatre trip and a selection of movies The Lehman Trilogy This week's theatre trip took us to a matinee of The Lehman Trilogy, which I missed first time around. At nearly three and a half hours long (although with 2 intervals) this is a bit of a marathon, but it actually didn’t feel like that, in fact the last act felt a bit rushed in the end. A great revolving set with a cast of three embodying all of the characters with just a change of physicality and voice, and a live pianist to accompany the action and set the mood. This history of a family and brief history of the growth of America and capitalism at the same time, was really interesting and enjoyable, particularly in walking us through the journey from middle men to traders to the consumerism bit where they were lending people money they don’t have to buy things they don’t need. The tone was a bit elegiac and I would have liked a bit more anger at t...