A Daft Comedy about Greed
★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Observer ★★★★ WhatsOnStage.com
In a small town in Yorkshire, a beautiful widow is being wooed by two suitors. Fresh from the City and with endless money to dispose of, the older one showers her with gifts – which the younger (handsome, impecunious, an inveterate gambler) wants to put to better use.
A love triangle, then; a tale of rivalry and avarice.
But money’s a slippery commodity and all is not quite as it seems. Throw in a bailiff, a drunkard, a vamp, a second-hand clothes dealer and two upwardly mobile servants, and the complications multiply.
Adapted from Alain-Rene Lesage’s savage eighteenth-century comedy Turcaret, Blake Morrison’s For Love or Money is a story of monstrous wealth and whopping lies.
A Northern Broadsides production
Company
Cast Matt Booth, Jim English, Jordan Metcalfe, Sarah Parks, Sarah-Jane Potts, Kat Rose-Martin, Barrie Rutter, Jos Vantyler & Jacqueline Naylor
A new adaptation of Lesage’s Turcaret
By Blake Morrison
Directed by (and featuring) Barrie Rutter
Designer Jessica Worrall
Lighting Tim Skelly
Reviews
For Love or Money
★★★★
"Northern Broadsides strike comedy gold"
For Love or Money
★★★★
"An extremely stylish example of the genre and exceptionally well-acted"
For Love or Money
"A crowd-pleasing production"
