Serious Money

Perhaps the greatest play about corruption ever written, staged minutes from the glass towers of the City. Caryl Churchill's savage verse satire of the Square Mile was first performed at the Royal Court in 1987 with Gary Oldman, and famously revived after the 2008 crash.

Now it returns to money's doorstep. Eleven actors play over forty characters: takeover artists, PR consultants, corrupt MPs and a young woman investigating her brother's death. It is written entirely in rhyme and performed at a thousand miles an hour, in a comedy that owes as much to pantomime as the trading floor.