Preview: The Money’s in the Bank – Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds
Surprise encounters, plotting, deception and a sweet love story all feature in the English première of Curth Flatow’s comedy play, Das Geld liegt auf der Bank, which opens this week in Leeds.
Alan Buttery, a member of the Leeds Arts Centre, has translated and adapted Curth Flatow’s 1968 comedy Das Geld liegt auf der Bank, which was originally produced at Berlin’s Hebbel Theater in 1968.
The adaptation, which will be performed this week at the Carriageworks Theatre in Leeds city centre with a local flavour, follows George the Bold, a safe cracker with a difference: he has principles!
Crafty Leeds blacksmith George is a family man who is notorious for being second-to-none with a cutting torch until an enforced sabbatical puts him on the straight and narrow.
His long-suffering sons are distraught when they hear that he is up to his old tricks again, but will their plotting and scheming be enough to stop George from finally being able to ‘work properly’ again?
Directed by Camilla Asher, The Money’s in the Bank is performed by the Leeds Arts Centre, a prestigious amateur drama group founded in 1945, which describes its membership as people from “all walks of life, working together to maintain the high standards for which our productions are known.”
Alongside producing at least four main stage plays each season at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds Arts Centre also run workshops and productions to help members develop acting, directing and stagecraft skills.
The original version of Flatow’s play, who is renowned as one of the most prolific and successful comedy dramatists in Germany, has been dramatized for television at least four times.
Tickets are £10.
The Money’s in the Bank runs at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds from Wednesday 5 until Saturday 8 February 2014. Tickets are available online, in person from the Carriageworks Box Office, or by telephoning 0113 224 3801.
