SOURCE: "Cash, Bang, Wallop," in New Statesman, Vol. 113, No. 2923, 3 April 1987, pp. 25-6.

As with many other Churchill plays, Serious Money was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre. It later moved to Wyndham 's in London's West End theater district and then, with some cast changes, to New York's Public Theatre. Early in 1988, a Broadway production was mounted with an entirely American cast. In the following review of a Royal Court performance, Radin maintains that Serious Money is not "a lasting work, but its quality of cheap immediacy, an inky newness like this morning's tabloid, gives it a freshness one rarely sees in the theatre. "

Coming Into the Royal Court to see Serious Money I was crushed against a wall by a large gentleman who evidently saw no reason why my presence should impede his progress towards his chosen destination. The episode served as a fitting introduction to...