Oh man, ouch. We had tickets for August 16th, but one of the actors injured herself seriously DURING an earlier performance, and so a few shows had to be postponed, and with so much going on this August (Pinter, Intiman, and then non-theatre parts of life), we weren't able to make it. Now I don't feel so badly about that.

On the one hand, I haven't seen the play; on the other, there are friends and colleagues involved. So I'll refrain from contesting your opinion of the production, but I'm interested addressing the (quaint, to my ear) notion that it's inherently a problem for a play--for any work of art, really--not to have an (the?) answer for the problem it addresses. It might be interesting to see how a playwright would organize capital and labor (I can't imagine how, but it would have to be less boring--if also likely less practical--than how an economist would organize same), but I tend to look to art for interesting questions and (sometimes less than reliable, that is to say, radically subjective) data than for concrete answers and social strategies. I'm not sure I trust the materialists to answer our material questions . . . and I'm even less sure I'm interested in artists being materialists.