Northern Broadsides

A new adaptation of Lesage’s Turcaret by Blake Morrison.
Directed by (and featuring) Barrie Rutter.

In a small town in Yorkshire, two suitors are wooing a beautiful widow. Fresh from the City and with endless money to dispose of, the older one showers her with gifts – which the younger (handsome, impecunious, an inveterate gambler) wants to put to better use.

A love triangle, then; a tale of rivalry and avarice.

But money’s a slippery commodity and all is not quite as it seems. Throw in a bailiff, a drunkard, a vamp, a second-hand clothes dealer and two upwardly mobile servants, and the complications multiply.

Adapted from Alain-Rene Lesage’s savage eighteenth-century comedy Turcaret, Blake Morrison’s For Love or Money is a story of monstrous wealth and whopping lies.