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''Love and Money'' by Dennis Kelly played at the Royal Exchange, Manchester before it transferred to the Young Vic in 2006 directed by Matthew Dunster and opened the New Studio at the Young Vic.〔http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/14969/love-and-money〕 An examination of how love is destroyed by materialism told backwards from a man describing the murder of his wife to escape debt until the play ends with his wife's excitement following his proposal.〔http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kelly-dennis.html〕 ==Synopsis== David is emailing a French lady whom he has met and hopes to begin a relationship with. She repeatedly questions him over his wife's death until he reluctantly reveals that she tried to commit suicide. They were both suffering from crushing debt so when he found her having taken an overdose he did not help but decided to wait for the pills to work. When he realised that they were taking too long he feeds his unconscious wife vodka so as to kill her, the lady is horrified and refuses to reply to David. The play goes back several months where David's wife (Jess)'s parents describe their anger when an old man pays for a large monument to his dead wife to be constructed in the graveyard. They feel that it overshadows their daughters grave and they cannot afford a better tribute to her, so Jess' father destroys the statue. Time goes back to before Jess's death and David is forced to take a job he is over qualified for with snobbish friends. There is a surreal scene where characters are denoted only by numbers and examine the nature of death and money. Further back in the relationship between Jess and David and the strain is beginning to show. David comes to see Jess in hospital who has just witnessed a bad assault while she was out shopping. David's comfort turns to anger as he realises she was out buying again. The play ends with a long monologue from Jess who is overjoyed at having been proposed to. The speech is very philosophical contrasted to the materialistic chatter of before however the future is foreshadowed as Jess claims that now she is going to be married she would like to be a little bit more like the people in the magazines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love and Money (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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