SERIOUS MONEY
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The British are a little different. As a group, I mean. What with a House of Lords and a House of Commons–and a queen, for chrissake–class war’s a tradition with them. They seem to understand the politics of money. They seem to realize that greed’s not just a sin but a system. And they seem to know that behind every obscenely successful man there’s a Thatcherite government, goading him on.
Which is one of several reasons why, while we’re turning out cowardly duds like Wall Street–full of evasions, lousy with unacknowledged politics–they can come up with something as perfectly, as provocatively, nasty as Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money.
Everything and everyone is rotten in Serious Money. From bottom to top, from past to present, the whole capitalist setup stinks. Churchill shows just how much, and why.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/David Sutton.
