When the playwright lists past works with titles such as Socialism Is Great and Capitalism: A Lecture Series you kind of get an inkling about the direction a new play about the current financial issues is going to take. 

Anders Lustgarten's If You Don't Let Us Dream...  starts out with a series of short scenes linked loosely by a narrative which takes free market principles and capitalism to its extreme. Social disorder is effectively privatised and sold off as bonds. The lower the crime rates the more money is made by investors until the bankers realise they can make more money by hedging on crime going up.

The scheme is such a success generating capital too for the government that more and more is privatised to the point that measures and targets in hospitals and prisons dehumanise those they serve.

Several characters have threads running through the scenes culminating in a final lengthier segment where they come together as a protest group, occupying a disused court house. The group is planning to put capitalism on trial as a publicity stunt.

This is a lean production; a stripped back stage with props, costumes and odd bits of furniture all on view around the edges, brought into use by the actors when needed. It also has a refreshingly lean running time of 75 minutes.