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Serious Money

Name: Serious Money
Author: Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill

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Serious Money

Caryl Churchill

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"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent

Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham's production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated".

This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.

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Publisher

Methuen Drama

Year

2013

ISBN

9781408171554

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Drama

Index

Literature

xxxii 

SERIOUS 

MONEY

The

play's 

lasting 

quality

is

assured

by

the

mature 

satirical

stance

of

the

dramatist. 

This

is

not

merely

a

topical 

swipe

at

Yuppie 

fashion

(as

some 

foreign 

reviewers 

claimed). 

There

is

no

suggestion

that

the

new

breed

of

City 

dealers

are

any

worse 

than

their 

predecessors:

GRIMES.

We're 

only 

doing

just

the

same

All

you

bastards 

always 

done.

New

Faces

in

your

old

square 

mile,

Making

money 

with

a

smile,

Just

as

clever,

just

as

vile.

(p.

88)

As

Michael 

Billington 

recognised,

the

play

'attacks

the

City's

greed

and

fear

with 

zest 

rather 

than

self-righteousness'

(Guardian). 

Serious 

Money

is

indeed 

topical, 

showing 

aspects

of

Britain

immediately

after

Big

Bang

and

the

Guinness 

scandal;

it

contributes 

distinctively

to

the

political 

theatre

of

the

1980s,

making

its

own

telling 

judgement

on

the

ethics

of

Thatcherism.

But

it

also 

remains 

fresh,

and

it

has

a

continuing 

relevance

as

a

satire

on

greed

and

the

ruthless 

workings

of

a

financial 

centre.

Citation styles for Serious Money

APA 6 Citation

Churchill, C. (2013). Serious Money (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/392847/serious-money-pdf (Original work published 2013)

Chicago Citation

Churchill, Caryl. (2013) 2013. Serious Money. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.perlego.com/book/392847/serious-money-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Churchill, C. (2013) Serious Money. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Publishing. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/392847/serious-money-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.