by Tony Annicone
 

After two long years, Burbage Theatre Company brings Ayad Akhtar’s Kennedy Prize winning drama “Junk” to audiences. It’s also the New England Premiere and their last show of their 10th season. Junk is based on a true story and it’s essentially The West Wing meets the Wolf of Wall Street. Junk is a sprawling epic about the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts of the 1980’s who make and break the rules of uncharted waters of finance while creating vast amounts of money for themselves. The money they garner is unbelievable as they engineer the first hostile takeover of a Dow Jones corporation and introduce the concept of debt as an asset. Is morality possible with the high stakes of involvement with money?

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