Crash

Synopsis

It’s a reunion of sorts, but you’d never guess they ever had anything in common to see them now. Nick - Securities Trader for Goldman Sachs and collector of art. Humphrey - an artist with ethics and a cheque he’s not sure he should cash. Christine - the beautiful girl they both loved, but Humphrey married. All together again, in Nick’s Elizabethan mansion, getting ready to celebrate the unveiling of a new sculpture. But under the surface Humphrey is angry. Angry in the same way that the whole world is angry, angry about how people like Nick seem to have got away with causing a financial meltdown that affected everyone, but still manage to bank their bonuses.

Our Review:

Hannah Giles - 20 October 2010

Bankers are the root of all evil. Discuss. The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of Crash clearly aspires to provoke lively post-show debate; laying out the issues surrounding the recent financial meltdown and challenging people to face up to some unpalatable truths. It’s a bold ambition, but one that, for the most part, it manages to pull off.

The story concerns Humphrey, an artist, who, along with his teacher wife Christine, brings his latest sculpture to the palatial country estate of their old university friend, the uber-rich Nick, a securities trader. Over the course of the play’s two hours (plus interval) issues bubble to the surface concerning Nick’s long-held feelings for Christine and, more importantly, money.

Money is everywhere in Crash, from the ostentatious artwork in Nick’s living room and the champagne filling his liquor cabinet to a £100,000 cheque that is the cause of m...

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Latest User Review

Brian Waller - 12 November 2010:

Puerile and unsubtle theatre- far below usual standards at WYP ...

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