A Bush Theatre and Unlimited Theatre co-production.
Extra performances added! Now showing till 9 March.
Casino and Queenie used to be hedge fund managers. Before the financial crisis of 2008, that is. Now, in an inspired – or desperate – career move, they’ve turned to performance art to share their stories of how to make (and lose) billions from economic downturn.
Playing with £10,000 in real pound coins, you are invited to bet long, short and hedge, as game show hosts Casino and Queenie challenge you to play a series of high stake games that demonstrate how the world’s economic system came to the brink of collapse.
So, risk takers to the front, risk averse to the back. Welcome to MONEY the game show.
The Bush teams up with Unlimited Theatre to take a playful and politically sharp look at the roots of the financial crisis and its ongoing impact, as well as tackling some bigger questions: What is money? What is it worth? And what happens when we stop believing in it?
Alongside MONEY the game show, Unlimited Theatre and the Bush Theatre are offering you the chance to buy a £1 share in the show and see your actual pound on stage. At the end of the show’s tour our shareholders will decide what happens with the cash from the total shares invested. A playful game to start a serious conversation about money.
To find out more visit moneythegameshow.com.
Supported by the Simon Gray Award. Originally developed as part of the Platform 18: New Directions Award, supported by The Arches, Traverse Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland
Special thanks to Eventbrite for supporting Your Pound on Stage.
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Clare is a founding member of Unlimited Theatre, a freelance playwright and has recently a completed PhD by practice in writing for performance at Glasgow University. Her first full length play, CROSSINGS was commissioned by Sgript Cymru, won a Pearson award and a year long residency at the West Yorkshire Playhouse where she wrote A GOOD MAN. CROSSINGS was published and toured the UK from March – June. She has co-written most of Unlimited’s work, including NEUTRINO, ZERO DEGREES AND DRIFTING, TANGLE, THE MOON THE MOON, MISSION TO MARS and THE GIANT AND THE BEAR. Other works include LOCAL REALITY EXPO (CCA, Unity Theatre / Homotopia, Chapter Arts Centre), THE FALL (BBC Radio 4), BLACK TONIC (The Other Way Works, national touring) and ANA (Stellar Quines and Imago Theatre, Montreal). In 2011 we was awarded an Arches New Director’s Award to begin work on MONEY THE GAME SHOW (Traverse, The Arches). She is currently writing SOS… SOME OTHER STARTS for Canada’s Magnetic North.
David Edwards is a composer and drummer from Bristol. Recording and producing under the name Minotaur Shock, he has recorded and produced four instrumental electronica albums for labels such as 4AD and Melodic. The most recent of which, ‘Orchard’, was released in 2012 and received some lovely critical acclaim. David
has undertaken remixes and collaborations with artists including Bloc Party, Super Furry Animals, Snow Patrol, Gold Panda and Perfume Genius, and has produced music for TV and film production companies and various advertising campaigns. He has collaborated with Unlimited on a number of productions over the last few years (providing original music for The Moon The Moon; Mission To Mars and The Giant and the Bear).
Working in theatre since 2004, Matt has worked on a wide variety of projects, including musicals, plays, interactive theatre and dance. Specialising in sound, he has undertaken numerous sound designs as well as No.1 sound operator roles. Sound Design credits include: Last Seen, (Almeida Theatre, London), Beyond The Frontline,
They Only Come At Night: Resurrection (The Lowry, Salford), They Only Come At Night: Visions, Helium (Barbican, London) They Only Come At Night: Pandemic (Singapore International Arts Festival) [all for Slung Low], Lord Of The Flies (Theatre Royal, Glasgow for Matthew Bourne New Adventures) and Northern Exposure Season
(West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds). Operator Credits include: Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (UK Tour) and Lord Of The Flies (Theatre Royal, Glasgow), Company (Sheffield Theatres) and Backbeat (Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow).
Rhys was one of the winners of the 2007 Linbury Biennial Prize, for his design of VARJAK PAW for the Opera Group. Forthcoming work includes Alice in Wonderland (Northern Stage), How I Hacked My Way to Space (Unlimited) and The Wedding (Gecko). Other work includes James and the Giant Peach, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Northern Stage), The Wedding, Time of Your Life (BBC co-pro) The Dreamer (Shanghai Dramatic arts Centre co-pro), Institute, Missing (all Gecko), The Machine Stops (Pilot), Hurling Rubble at the Sun and Hurling Rubble at the Moon (Park Theatre), The Nutcracker (Nuffield Theatre), Holes (Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Arcola Theatre), Threeway (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Rhys also designs outdoor work, opera and television.
Richard Godin trained at Central School of Speech & Drama. His recent Lighting Design credits are: Michael Clark’s The Barrowlands Project (Closing of the 2012 Cultural Olympia, Glasgow) DV8 – Can We Talk About This? Co Design (Slovenia, Korea, Taiwan), No Sweat (The Generating Company, Sarlet, France & Touring), A
Christmas Carol, Diary of a Nobody, Travels With My Aunt (Royal Theatre, Northampton), Top Girls, Assumption, The Lover, Under Milk Wood (The Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Twelfth Night, From a Jack to a King, A Slice of Saturday Night (The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch), Speakout (English Touring Opera), Henry V (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Diva in Me (Brighton Pavilion,
Greenwich Theatre, Devonshire Park), The Other Road (National Theatre, Watch This Space) The Servant to two Masters (Komedia), Uncle Montagues Stories From the Shadows (Old Vic Tunnels), Richard has toured extensively internationally with DV8 Physical Theatre (Can We Talk About This? & To Be Straight With You) & Complicite (The Master & Margarita & A Disappearing Number). Please visit www.richardgodin.co.uk
Brian Ferguson’s theatre work includes Richard III/Aztec Trilogy, Dunsinane, Shakespeare in a Suitcase (RSC), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre), Dark Things, Fall (Traverse, Edinburgh), The Drawer Boy (Glasgow Tron), Blackwatch (National Theatre of Scotland) and Rupture, Snuff, They Make Noises (Glasgow Archers). For television, his credits include The Prayer, River City and Taggart. Brian took part in the original development work of MONEY the game show in Scotland in 2011
Lucy Ellinson’s theatre credits include Oh the humanity (and other good intentions) for Northern Stage (Newcastle, Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre), TORYCORE (Forest Fringe, winner of the Arches Brick Award 2012), Tenet (Gate Theatre), A Thousand Shards of Glass (Jane Packman Company), Alice in Wonderland, Down the Rabbit Hole (Royal Northampton & Derngate Theatres), Who You Are (Tate Modern), They Only Come at Night, Helium for Slunglow Theatre (BITE festival/The Barbican),and UK premières for Land Without Words (Edinburgh Festival – nomination for The Stage’s Best Solo Performance Award, international touring) and Monsters (Arcola Theatre). She has previously worked with Unlimited on their shows Tangle and Mission To Mars
