by Will Evans and Valentine

adapted by

Alan Ayckbourn

directed by

Maurice Thorogood*  

Evenings at 7.30

Matinees:

1 and 8 Sep  at 2.30

in the NFRAC marquee at the Library Gardens, Farnham.

Venue information

Tons of Money is set in 1922, a world when even your bath salts go to your head, you drink champagne and you owe the world money.

Then one day you learn there is an answer to paying your debts: you have to disappear in an explosion so nobody will ever find you again. Which means you are free to return as somebody else to claim the money.

So, who is the mad monk and why are there two Mexican cowboys kissing your wife's girl friend? Why does your cook loathe the gardener and should you trust the butler and his theatrical brother? And was it a good idea for your wife to let you disappear in the first place? Well, yes, but only if you can pay the butcher, the baker, the dairy maid, the florist, the tailor, the milliner, the wine merchant, the laundrywoman and the coalman the tons of money you owe them.

Ayckbourn staged his version of Tons Of Money at the National Theatre in 1986, but Will Evans and Valentine’s play was first seen in 1922, a precursor to a decade of Ben Travers’s Aldwych farces.

This year's revival comes from the team that brought you rafter-shaking comedies such as She Stoops to Conquer, The Bandwagon and Charley's Aunt.