Love and Money

Synopsis

David conducts an office romance by e-mail. He has love at his fingertips. But a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece. Jess loves David. She believes happiness can be bought - but it doesn t come cheap in a world of easy credit. Jess and David s ideal blend of love and money is killing them. Funny but heart wrenching, this ingenious drama dares us to enter a dislocated world of bad debts and even worse desires.

Our Review:

22 November 2006

Dennis Kelly is an intriguing, disturbing playwright whose new work, a jigsaw puzzle of modern urban life in seven short scenes, opens the new studio in the re-launched Young Vic. In fact, the Maria – so named in memory of the talented, much lamented designer Maria Bjornson, still celebrated in her Phantom of the Opera designs – is much the same as the old studio, a square box with ugly grey breezeblocks.

But it feels new, and perhaps higher, with room for a striking, curvilinear wall of a design by Anna Fleischle, full of drawers and cupboards, that is easily transformed from a telecommunications sales office to a bedroom, a sleazy West End pub, a dining room and a hospital corridor. Impersonal and clinical, the world Kelly describes is indeed a nasty place.

David, knee-deep in debt, is conducting an e-mail romance with a French colleague. His wife Jess may be dead, he may have killed her. He has a mole on his arm that a potential employer, an ...

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Latest User Review

86.138.25.49) - 30 November 2006:

A week on and I'm the first punter review; what rubbish is everyone else going to? This is a wonderful opener for the new Maria Studio. A sparklingly original, challenging, compelling and thought-provoking new play by Dennis Kelly (whose 'After the End' at the Bush was so scary and thrilling). It examines concepts of happiness through love and money entertainingly, often funnily and often deeply moving. The production values and performances are premiere league. You'd be bonkers not to get to The Young Vic and see this vital piece of new writing....

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