Travis Kalanick: The Musical

I'm sorry, I lied. That headline is "fāke™ " or, inward the words of Sheldon Cooper "A large fatty whopper".
However, 'Brilliant Jerks' is a play! 

From PitchBook:

What 'Brilliant Jerks' tin dismiss instruct us nigh Travis Kalanick's rising together with fall

As the cyberspace closes inward on Tyler Janowski, the CEO of the unnamed ridehailing app at the essence of the novel play "Brilliant Jerks", he faces 2 board members trying to convince him to leave, every bit reports of harassment together with sexism converge on the fellowship he founded.

Unrelenting, he launches into a tirade defending his business, its civilization together with himself. "We stimulate got 1,500 first-time managers," spits Janowski. "I can’t hold upward responsible for 1,500 people!"

The show, written yesteryear journalist Joseph Charlton together with playing at the VAULT Festival inward London, takes its scream from a 2017 spoken communication yesteryear Uber board fellow member Arianna Huffington, inward which she said the fellowship would no longer tolerate "brilliant jerks." But the play isn't but a fictionalised convey on the fantastical up-and-down journeying of Uber together with its old CEO, Travis Kalanick. It is nigh the responsibility—and on occasion the lack of it—of 3 principal characters: Mia, 1 of the app's drivers, who industrial plant inward the North of England together with has a troubled past; Sean, a savvy if sometimes naïve coder amongst his ain secret; and, of course, Tyler, the all-powerful series entrepreneur who watches every bit the empire he has built piece of cake comes to eat him.

The trio of actors who play these characters, every bit good every bit diverse other parts, proceed the activeness moving amongst short, precipitous dialogue interspersed amongst their ain inner monologues. The play is mainly narrated yesteryear the 3 principal characters, amongst telling the even direct to the audience prioritized higher upward conversation. The termination is to elevate the feel of legend inward the rising together with autumn of the company, mimicking Uber itself.

The demonstrate doesn't push clit punches when it comes to highlighting the toxicity together with sexism rife amidst the app's offices. Although the play does non advert Uber yesteryear name, in that place are scenes dedicated to several infamous episodes inward the company's history, such every bit the alleged work trip to a karaoke-escort bar inward Seoul and, every bit Susan Fowler described, Piketty, The Musical
Martin Shkreli, The Musical Set To Debut June 19

It's a niche, together with I idea it was mine but every bit noted elsewhere:

I am coming to convey it's a race amongst no winners, hell I fifty-fifty got beaten to "Enron, the Musical" yesteryear 1 Lucy Prebble who took it to the West End.
As the immature people say: bitch.

Oh well, here's about background on the Enron zeitgeist from Generic Theater who did the southern-U.S. premier of the show:...