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WITH its depiction of corporate greed, there was outrage when Turcaret was first staged in 1709, eventually leading to Alain-Rene Lesage’s satire being pulled after only seven performances.
Now adapted by Blake Morrison for Northern Broadsides, and renamed For Love or Money, it’s a much cosier affair.
Relocated from pre-revolutionary France to a small village in Yorkshire in the 1920s, it’s a gently humorous indictment of capitalist corruption which, while it won’t rock the Establishment in the way of the original, has themes that are still relevant.
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