Brian Cox returns to Scottish stage with the commencement of Edinburgh Festival

It was a banking disaster that brought the Scottish institution to its knees and sent shockwaves around the world.

Now the story of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Rise and Fall has been brought home to Edinburgh, which is in major new production.

Veteran actor Brian Cox, who is acting as a ghost of economist Adam Smith, says that at the age of 79 he is focused on “giving better breaks to people”.

“Betting Satire” can be the most anticipated drama of Edinburgh International Festival, but it is one of the thousands of shows later this week as the city turns into the world’s largest art site for another year.

Cox is one of the 2,000 artists from 42 countries who appear at this year’s International Festival, and the fringe has another 4,000 shows, with 500 not registered in time for publication of 2025 programs.

While he played the role of Magalomaniq billionaire Logan Roy in the TV drama succession, the actor says that his dandi childhood has focused him on the other end of the money spectrum.

“People forget their roots,” Cox told me that he joined EIF Director Nikola Bendetti for the world premiere of Make It Hapan – a cooperation between Scotland’s National Theater, Dandi rape and festival.

“Your roots are very important for you, and that’s why I give my upbringing award in Dundi,” he said.

He said to play the role of 18th century Scott, thanks to his book The Wealth of Nations as the father of modern economics.

However, the play suggests that it is an earlier book, The Theory of Moral Santhes, who was more representative of his philosophy.

“The play has a line where he says,” Capitalism, I don’t even know what it means. ”

“He saw himself as a moral philosopher. He did not see himself as seen by others. These were the situations in which people were worried.”

Considering his difficult upbringing in the dandy, Cax dismissed the suggestion that it was “terrible”.

“No, it was not – it was a learning experience. Yes, it was difficult. It was as hard as hell.

“You know, when your father is dead when you are eight years old, and then you find a mummy, who undergoes a series of nervous breakdown and treats electric shock, I mean, when he goes below a healthy 10-stone just five-stones, you know, it is just frightening.

“But you live with it. You learn. But you need to say, ‘Come on, give people the best’ and this is not happening.”

At the age of 79, no signs of ease of cox were shown.

After playing, he will take on a national tour of a man show on his memoir and directed his first film.

Glennrothan – A family drama about a Scots Whiskey Company starring Allen Cumming and Shirley Henderson – will be released next year.

“I am now a certain age,” he believes. “The end is very close to the beginning. So I think whatever I can do is opposition.

“I can’t do more than opposition, but I oppose because I believe we need to give people a better break, as much as we give them.”

Coxy first committed himself to the drama about the financial crisis several years ago, when Andrew Panton was appointed as the director of the Dandi rape.

“We spoke at the opening of V&A Dundi for the first time,” said Cox. “He was eager to return to the representative and do a drama, but we did not know what he would happen.

“Then there was Kovid, which put a break on everything, and we realized that we need a drama that would bring people back to the theater.”

Make It Happing suggested the President of Dundi Rape, Dr. Susan Hatrick was done, who worked in RBS just before the financial crisis and now experts of toxic culture in the workplace.

“You don’t imagine that you are going to work in an outfit, especially one who was considered as RBS, and 15 years later you would be looking at it on stage,” he said.

“How successful was, which was much more acclaimed by academics and business schools, it could be a collapse.

“Try to understand what happened in the organization, but even within the economy and society, it is very important and I think there is a lot of lessons and a lot of insight that we can take from it.”

The center of the play is Fred Goodwin, played by Sandy Grierson.

A former accountant from Paisley named Fred the Shred, Goodwin to help RBS to help in building the world’s largest bank.

And for a time, it was. He transferred the traditional New Town headquarters of the bank to the Greenfield site in Goggarde near Edinburgh Airport, with 3,000 employees, tennis courts, a medical center and a corporate jet.

Sandy said, “The character written by James Graham is attractive.”

“This reservoir turns around the goggurburn, moving from the basseptled auditor for the style of that reservoir dogs.

“He is a product of time, especially for a working class child from Paisley.”

It would be easy to present to Gudwin, which was taken away from her knighthood, but retained her pension as a pantomim villain. Or as a sacrificial goat. But Sandy believes that the play asks the widespread question of society.

“To what extent it gets stuck at a mood and at one time? People thought that it was solved by bankers in the higher finance tribe.

“They felt it was like alchemy. They were at the top of the world until the alchemy crashed.”

The Make It Happening Festival will run till Saturday 9 August.