Theatre/Love and Money

LOVE AND MONEY

Project Arts Centre, Dublin Previews Fri Opens Mon

Until May 9 8pm 20/18 01-8852622

There are bound to be some who see Dennis Kelly’s play, a deeply funny and shiver- inducing look at love in the time of conspicuous consumption, as something of a period drama. That’s because any play now anatomising the effects of materialism, avarice, easy credit and toxic debts is bound to resemble a cautionary fable about the day before yesterday (it debuted in 2006).

But Love and Money hasn’t lost any value. Kelly, who you may know from his scabrous TV comedy Pulling, is one of the most stimulating British writers around, combining a subversive approach to theatre with pitch-black humour and a real passion for moral substance.

Hatch Theatre Company is also interested in the shock of the new, but the hallmark of director Annabelle Comyn’s style to date has been one of elegant control. If anyone can do justice to this compelling, jolting and unsettling piece, it’s her.

At the risk of getting excited, beg, borrow or defraud your investors to get a ticket. Otherwise, just pay up.

PETER CRAWLEY

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The Comedy of Errors

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

NOTE:

The production of All My Sonsplays until June 6th at the Gate Theatre and not the Abbey Theatre, as mistakenly printed in the review pages last Thursday.