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Helen and Charlie work for a hedge fund in the city, and against a backdrop of a global financial crisis, they try to settle a drunken argument from an office party the night before. Are the differences between men and women genetically hard wired? Are men inherently aggressive risk takers and women naturally more cautious and risk-averse? The argument has ramifications in their personal lives, as well as in the economic crisis that is engulfing their industry and the world at large. Charlie offers an unusual way of settling the argument: a sociological experiment involving isolated teenagers that will test the inherent differences between the sexes. The privileged financiers watch as their human guinea pigs play out their first stirrings of adolescent friendship, sexual attraction, and jealousy...

Creatives/Company

Author: Pamela Carter
Producer(s): Tramway, Traverse Theatre Company
Director: Stewart Laing
Design: Stewart Laing