Arts crisis: Theater, TV and movies tackle causes and costs of global financial meltdown

LONDON - Greed, hubris, vast fortunes erased at a stroke - the financial crisis is dramatic gold dust for writers.

One of Britain's leading playwrights, David Hare, is tackling the world of toxic securities and subprime mortgages in his new play at the National Theatre in London. Author Sebastian Faulks has a new best-seller about a swashbuckling hedge fund trader. And the BBC has made a TV drama about the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

You may think stocks, derivatives and collateralized debt obligations are not the natural stuff of drama. Think again, says National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner, who commissioned Hare's play, "The Power of Yes.

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