# The Standard of Living

The Standard of Living at Leicester Square, Friday 30 October 2026, until 12 Dec.

- Price: ££
- Venue: Leicester Square
- With: Rory Kinnear, Natalia Osipova
- Go to page: https://leicestersquare.london/whats-on/the-standard-of-living

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The Standard of Living is a new play about the economist John Maynard Keynes, alive with music, dance, desire and debate, and a portrait of a man who dared to imagine something better. It was directed by multi award-winner Nicholas Hytner and stars Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear and Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova in her West End debut. The story follows Keynes, husband to ballerina Lydia Lopokova, lover to Duncan Grant and friend to Virginia Woolf, as he moves between the corridors of power in Whitehall and a radical circle of artists, writers and lovers determined to live differently, while markets crash and Britain teeters on the edge of chaos. The cast also includes Thomas Flynn, Laurie Kynaston, Pip Carter, Agatha Enecio, Naomi Frederick, Claire Price, George Taylor, Christopher Akrill, Luke Cinque-White, Daniela Norman, Xolisweh Ana Richards and Ben Warwick.

## Dates

- Monday 21 September until 12 Dec — Leicester Square

Written by a model, sources: [leicestersquare.london](https://leicestersquare.london/whats-on/the-standard-of-living)

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