Serious Money - A City Comedy - Softcover

Churchill, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573017115 ISBN 13: 9780573017117

Publisher: Samuel French, 1990

Synopsis

Serious Money is a Jonsonian satire about capitalism running rampant and unchecked. All money corrupts and serious money corrupts absolutely in the play's world of shady financial deals, insider trading and get rich quick wheeler dealers of both sexes. Not only does the play capture almost every aspect of dirty dealing and money grubbing from London to Wall Street, but it does so in extremely ingenious rhymed couplets!|3 women, 5 men, 11 women or men

About this title

About the Author:

Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. Her acclaimed body of work also includes Three More Sleepless Nights (1980); Top Girls (1982); Fen (1983); Mouthful of Birds (1986); Serious Money (1989); The Skriker (1984); Blue/Heart (1998) and most recently Far Away in Autumn (2000) which transferred to the West End.

Review:

"Brutally brilliant, savagely funny and appallingly realistic ...about the bankers...dealers...and media vultures.”—"Sunday Times" "A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance"—"Independent"
"Wants us to hear the very sound of megascale greed as it is practiced on that circuit of telephone wires and computer screens blinking 24 hours a day from Tokyo to New York.”—"The New York Times"

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0573017115
• ISBN 13: 9780573017117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144