The Standard of Living

The Standard of Living is a new play by Olivier Award-winning writer James Graham, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Rory Kinnear stars as economist John Maynard Keynes, with Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova as his wife, dancer Lydia Lopokova. Moving between Whitehall’s corridors of power and the artistic freedoms of the Bloomsbury Group, the drama examines Keynes’ relationships, his ideas and his search for a meaningful life as markets collapse and old systems begin to fail. Music, dance and political debate combine in a portrait of a thinker who tried to imagine a better society.