It is both a portrait of a man in difficulty -- a recovering drug addict played astoundingly by Lie -- and a hymn to a capital in flux.
During this period of flux, people and capital are concentrated in declining sectors, and economic output will be less than it could be.
From K Street to Capitol Hill, Washington is in a state of flux remarkable even for a capital that has come to expect a good deal of turnover in the months after a national election.
CEO Lei Jun acknowledged that "global capital markets are in constant flux" thanks to tensions between Beijing and the White House, which has seen trade tariffs levied on each side.
As the playwright Geoffrey Cowan (a former director of Voice of America) put it, the play's very presence in the Chinese capital was a measure of a place in flux.
In addition, the supply of capital to purchase subprime mortgage securities is also in flux.
Berlin's disjointed flux was a tonic after the gilded perfection of the French capital.
But when the private markets are in flux, many poor decisions are made around spending, hiring and raising capital, all of which gum up the Silicon Valley value creation machine.
"That is the theory, but in real life, the Argentine situation is in flux, both economically and politically, and you are not going to see capital moving into Argentina until things settle down".
But while the well-documented gentrification of London is leaving an indelible stain on the capital's queer scene, the reality is that it's always been in a state of flux.
The sustainable flux is the one at which a modest degree of fouling occurs, providing a compromise between capital expenditure (which is reduced by using high flux) and operating costs (which are reduced by restricting the fouling rate).
