Photo Flash: First Look at Northern Broadsides Premiere of Blake Morrison's FOR LOVE OR MONEY

Following their hugely successful co-production with Hull Truck Theatre of Richard III, Northern Broadsides are set to premiere For Love or Money, Blake Morrison's new adaptation of Alain-Rene Lesage's savage eighteenth-century French comedy Turcaret. The production will be the final touring production to be directed and featuring Northern Broadsides artistic director Barrie Rutter. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The production's cast features Sarah-Jane Potts (Sugar Rush (E4), Lauren in the smash hit British film Kinky Boots and Gemma Fisher in Gracepoint, the American TV version of the ITV seriesBroadchurch) as Rose; Jos Vantyler (King Lear, Northern Broadsides and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, West Yorkshire Playhouse and UK tour) as Arthur; Jordan Metcalfe (Duke of York in The Hypocrite, Hull Truck Theatre and the RSC) as Jack; Matthew Booth (Richard III & When We Are Married, Northern Broadsides) as Ruddle; Sarah Parks (Henry V, RSC) as Teresa; Kat Rose-Martin(The Mighty Atoms, Hull Truck Theatre) as Lisa; Jim English (Richard III; Northern Broadsides and Hull Truck Theatre) as Martin; and Jacqueline Naylor as Marlene.

Set in a small town in Yorkshire, a beautiful widow is being wooed by two suitors. Fresh from the City and with endless money to dispose of, the older one showers her with gifts - which the younger (handsome, impecunious, an inveterate gambler) wants to put to better use. But money's a slippery commodity and all is not quite as it seems. Throw in a bailiff, a drunkard, a vamp, a second-hand clothes dealer and two upwardly mobile servants, and the complications multiply.

The production is designed by Jessica Worrall (When We Are Married, Northern Broadsides) with lighting by Tim Skelly.

For Love or Money opens at the Viaduct Theatre Halifax tonight 15th for a run through 23rd September and will then tour until 2nd December 2017.

Photo Credit: Nobby Clark

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