On February 11, 2000, a little-known bank with humble beginnings became the second largest bank in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1727, in Edinburgh, the Royal Bank of Scotland was on the rise, its spectacular downfall still unimaginable. But after a decade of rapid expansion, it announced one of the largest corporate losses in British history in January 2009, placing Scotland at the epicenter of the 2008 global financial crisis. Central to the collapse was the bank’s C.E.O., Fred Goodwin, a man devoted to the philosophies of Adam Smith, the so-called “founder of modern capitalism.” Nearly 20 years later, Goodwin is reimagined onstage, played by Sandy Grierson in James Graham’s satire on the ambitious Scottish bankers who helped bring the global economy to its knees. Succession’s Brian Cox plays Smith, the ghost of economics past. Andrew Panton directs. —Jeanne Malle