https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.33 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1703 Mon, 14 Dec 1987 20:48:27 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1703 You get a tougher take on Wall Street from the Wall Street Journal (or the Financial Times) than you do from Caryl Churchill’s “Serious Money,” the comedy in verse that opened at the Public Theater last Thursday for a five-week run. “Serious Money,” which comes to New York from the Royal Court Theater in London’s fashionable Sloane Square, takes a satiric look at the post-deregulation world of high finance and comes to such whopping great conclusions as that there is money in the world, that money is bad because it makes people greedy, and that insider trading is carried on Continue reading]]>