Review: Money

There is nothing else even close to this on the London theatre landscape.

This hallucinogenic offering from the Shunt collective takes place within a huge, specially built iron edifice, representing goodness knows what, but possibly Victorian capitalism.

Much of the action is seen through transparent floors and ceilings. The sketchy narrative is based on Emile Zola’s novel L’Argent which was partly inspired by the 19th-century collapse of a French Catholic bank set up to compete with Jewish-owned financial institutions. This might explain the presence of a Chasid who glides on wheels across the floor.

There is also a desperate entrepreneur whose success the audience toasts with specially served champagne, and whose failure is marked by the whole edifice shaking until you believe that it is about to blow up. Though, actually, all that blows is your mind.