![]() But they can’t monitor everything, and other instances occur that don’t get taken care of. At one point James Byrant, playing Belfort’s right-hand man, shuts down a man who throws a racist insult on stage: leave it to the professionals, Byrant warns. But what makes the night most uncomfortable is when over-zealous audience members use the characters’ vile behaviour as an excuse to echo it themselves. “Too fucking easy, right?” Belfort chants after being cleared of a case of sexual assault. The show makes us complicit in Befort’s wrongdoings. Are we no longer going to Switzerland? Is it still our first day? If the plan was for us to quietly hover, they could at least have given us a seat. When we’re later let into the Belfort family home to watch how drugs destroy a life, our presence makes little sense. Our mission is quickly buried under a flurry of $100 bills, and for much of the night, we float alongside the action rather than within it. ![]() In the rare moments we are allowed to nose around, details are scarce the admin hasn’t been done to make us believe in the lie. ![]() All movement is strictly controlled as we’re ushered from one bland corporate room to another. ![]()
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