Gary Stevenson: The Trading Game to explore the high-stakes world of trillion-dollar trades at Nottingham Playhouse

A former trader is to give an insight into the high-stakes world of trillion-dollar trades, where profit and moral compromise collide.

What happens when you realise winning means betting on others losing? Gary Stevenson knows first-hand.

From kicking footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf’s skyscrapers and wishing for more, to winning a competition run by a bank: ‘The Trading Game’, Gary’s golden ticket to a new life saw him become the youngest and most successful trader in the city.

He had grabbed the opportunity with both hands, but his journey was equal parts extraordinary and unsettling.

Gary will take audiences deep inside the trading world, exploring what happens when winning starts to feel like losing, and when the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer .

But when the economy begins to crumble, how do you stop your own sanity slipping with it?

Audiences will also have the opportunity to ask their own questions, when Gary appears at Nottingham Playhouse on January 27 to share his outrageous and unvarnished journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world.