It's a full-on attack on the greed of the finance industry - in verse. Government, brokers, bankers and entrepreneurs plot and compete to defraud each other and to wreck the economy and ordinary peoples' lives in pursuit of short-term, personal profit - even sex palls in comparison with the thrill of the chase. If you want a funny, crude, incisive guide to why we're all going to be poor for the next few years - see this play.
Which brings me to my major point. Some of you dear readers are under 26 years old. I've suggested a kind of slow motion culture club. How about starting with free theatre tickets? It's a government scheme which theatres all over England have joined, offering 'free tickets to see any show' every Friday night at the Rep and loads of other places, until March 2011. So you could see Serious Money, or anything else. Here's the site:
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Birmingham Rep and look for 'a night less ordinary'.
Type in the area you want to go to and follow the simple instructions. I shall be polishing my fake ID in preparation.
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If you want to look under 26 then facial reconstruction may be more useful than a fake ID. There. I said it.
ps 'slow motion culture club'. Most homoerotic phrase ever?
Oddly enough, I planned to get that crack in before anyone else did, then thought I'd rely on the kindness of friends… won't be making that mistake again.
May rethink club's name.
Sorry. It was just there. All lined up and looking for a punchline.
Club name: I was thinking that "Elton John's Jam Sandwich" had a more masculine ring to it. Or how about "Timmy Mallet On A Trampoline: Bouncing. Bouncing. Bouncing."
A Guardian review. My favourite bit is 'My only caveats...'
You'd be hard pushed to find that sentence in a review of anything other than a theatre production.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/may/14/theatre-serious-money
Thanks Merciless, I'd missed that review. I shall shoehorn 'my only caveats' into my marking today!
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