Dramatic exploration of an investing moral conundrum

Review

Short Memory

Written and directed by Richard Roques

Running at the Golden Goose Theatre, London, to 23 April

Short-selling – borrowing shares then selling them in the hope that you can buy them back at a lower price. Many defend it as a legitimate investment strategy that helps expose fraud and make markets more efficient by acting as a check on the optimistic bias of analysts and promoters. Others argue that there is something distasteful, even morally wrong, about betting on other people’s misfortune, especially when the misfortune could have serious implications for large numbers of people. , written and directed by Richard Roques and running at the Golden Goose theatre in Camberwell in south London, explores the issues.