Money, an unquestionably avant-garde work, is about a world stripped of its humanity and meaning as cold hard cash buys or sells all that is vituous. Terzopoulos based the play on Brecht’s 1930 play Tha Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahagony as well as on three Brecht songs and a poem. 

The heart of the play can best be felt in a line from Mahagonny: “Today you have everything if you have money, everything can be bought if you have money, and everything is sold, nothing is given…” Movement an language are equally important in the play which is in both Greek as well as money’s current language-of-choice, English. 

Director Terzopoulos is true to Brecht’s theatrical recipe. He does not try to fool audiences into believing they are witnessing natural interactions and emotions. Instead the actors deliver strong drama through stylised, grotesque expressions and poses placing a distance between themselves and the actual events, thus making one chillingly aware of the theatrical experinece. 

Angelike Conis