Note: No longer in repertoire!

On a whim, two work-shy millennials invest their unemployment benefits in meme stocks and cryptocurrencies. Almost by accident, they end up throwing the entire global economy into turmoil.

Ape army is a breathless satire about two young lovers, Janica and Otto, whose dreams are anything but conventional. In fact, they have no dreams at all. Nor, for that matter, any future. They do not expect lifelong careers or save for a home of their own. Instead, they live in the moment and set their sights higher than the hand they have been dealt: rocketing to the Moon and onwards to Mars.

After two days of trading stocks, Janica and Otto discover that they are investment gurus. Together with a like-minded global community of online investment nerds – the ape army – they use absurdity and unpredictability to take on the Western financial elite and big capital.

Ape army turns the self-deprecating, carefree approach of millennial investors into a carnival: their desire to do things radically differently from previous generations and to tear down the smug hegemony of investment capitalism.

The play also explores the phenomenon known as meme investing, which rocked stock markets around the world when an ape army of millennial investors came close to bringing down a giant investment bank in the United States.

The events of the play are based, more or less, on reality. But since this is a comedy, everything is taken wildly over the top. Ape Army plays with the millennial aesthetic: excess, speed and irony.

And since everyone wants to get rich, of course, now there is an easy and affordable way to do it: after seeing this two-hour financial comedy, you will be an investment genius! Who cares about love – or anything else – when you are rich!

Performance rights are represented by Agency North.

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