Serious Money - (Student Editions) by Caryl Churchill (Paperback)

About the Book

With full commentary, notes, and a chronology of the writer's life and work.

Book Synopsis

"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.

Review Quotes

"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 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.