In just 2 months time Waking Exploits will be staging Caryl Churchill’s groundbreaking play, Serious Money.

This explosive play set in 1987 plunges us into a world where even the Tories struggle to deal with the City’s financial institutions. An era where the economy is growing out of control as a breed of risky bankers and dodgy…

It all starts here! Well, it’s been a while in the planning but now we can get stuck into creating this admittedly ambitious project.



It all started about 9 months ago, during a very rare clear up of my bookshelf I re-discovered a whole batch of plays that I had studied during my university days. One of which was Churchill’s Serious Money. I remembered reading it years ago and recalled how I struggled to connect with it. I remember arguing that the play represented no more than a…