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James Graham’s “The Standard of Living” at the Theatre Royal Haymarket: All-Embracing Account Of The Life And Career Of John Maynard Keynes

Timing is everything: James Graham’s new political history play, The Standard of Living, aptly opens on the very same day that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his first, and highly emotional, conference speech to the Labour Party Conference. Just as Burnham is widely seen as inspiring the nation with his vision of a better country, so the playwright tells the story of another paragon of public life, the economist John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas — among other things — helped save global capitalism after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It’s a big subject, so can this docudrama do…

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