For Love or Money

Tue 21 Nov to Sat 25 Nov 2017

PLAYHOUSE

£30 - £10

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

northern-broadsides.co.uk

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

★★★★
"An extremely stylish example of the genre and exceptionally well-acted"

For Love or Money

★★★★
"Northern Broadsides strike comedy gold"

For Love or Money

"A crowd-pleasing production"

For Love or Money // reviews

★★★★
"Northern Broadsides strike comedy gold"
The Guardian

★★★★
"Classic Broadsides"
The Observer

★★★★
"Extremely stylish ... exceptionally well-acted"
WhatsOnStage

★★★★
The Times

★★★★
Mail on Sunday

★★★★
Yorkshire Post

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