Shunt Lounge is renowned for innovative, wild and often wacky London theatre, and the resident space for the theatre organisation Shunt. By popular demand, Shunt’s recent production Money has now extended its run until June.

In a similar subject to hit West End show Enron, which focuses of the financial corruption and downfall of a US energy company in 2001, Money centres upon the collapse of Union Generale, a French bank, in the 19th Century.

Inspired from L’Argent by Emile Zola, which was itself stimulated following happenings surrounding the French bank, Money presents an almost text free production “in their inimitable aesthetic of fractured narrative, electrifying imagery and all-out sensory assault” – a style upon which they have built their success.

Aristide Saccard, an anti-semetic financier, wants to make a rapid fortune. He sets up a somewhat unstable institution which funds the public works and rail lines in the Middle East, meanwhile organising a dummy syndicate to manipulate share prices by purchasing all of his own stock. However the interference of Jewish rival Gundermann exposes his illegal practices, resulting in Saccard’s downfall.

Shunt consists of a troupe of ten performers, whose previous larger productions include Amato Saltone and Tropicana. Shunt Lounge is situated in the vaults underneath the London Bridge Station, and is home to regular experimental London theatre shows and various club nights.

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