Serious money

This isn't the first terrible recession we've been in. It isn't even the first one since I were a nipper. So it's a particularly good time to get down to Birmingham Repertory theatre, where they're restaging Caryl Churchill's Serious Money. It's a dark comedy about what happened when the boring world of raising money for companies to invest was invaded by horrible, loud, greedy, arrogant, selfish yuppie bastards - and in this case they'll stop at nothing, including murder, to get their way. It's funny AND it's true.

There's a story that City types saw it less as an attack on them and more as a lesson, leading to them block-booking theatres in 1987 so they could celebrate themselves. The gits.

Tickets range from £10, it's on until 23rd May. There's a captioned performance on the 16th, an audio-described show on the 21st, and a BSL one on May 22nd.

I'm going. It's rude (and long - 2h 35) and very instructive for our times.