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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.
Love and Money opened at the Manchester Royal Exchange in October 2006 with a transfer to the Young Vic, London.
About the author
Dennis Kelly's plays include
Debris,
Osama the Hero,
After the End,
Love and Money,
Taking Care of Baby,
DNA,
The Gods Weep,
Orphans,
The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas and
Girls and Boys. For television he created/co-created
Pulling,
Utopia and
The Third Day. He also wrote the book for
Matilda the Musical.
Summary
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.
Love and Money opened at the Manchester Royal Exchange in October 2006 with a transfer to the Young Vic, London.
Foreword
Love and Money is an ingenious drama about love and capitalism by award-winning playwright Dennis Kelly.
Additional text
We have a pool of amazingly talented playwrights in Britain, and we also have a quite separate talent pool producing comedy. There is very little dialogue between these two worlds, but Dennis is able to move very easily between them, and that is quite unique.
