OLD MONEY at Hampstead

Sarah Wooley’s new play, OLD MONEY, has now opened at Hampstead Theatre, starring Maureen Lipman and Tracy-Ann Oberman, in a production directed by Terry Johnson.

Forty years of respectable marriage should have prepared Joyce for respectable widowhood. She, however, has other ideas – and a secret life of champagne, strippers, and chance encounters unfolds in this tender comedy.

Sarah Wooley's excellent new comedy ...Wooley's beautifully observed script - threaded through with such crisp humour - allows for a host of understated but powerful performances.
Time Out **** (and Critics' Choice)

fine new comedy, by turns hilarious, dark and moving ...Though it is often richly comic, Sarah Wooley’s play also has pertinent and timely points to make ...Wooley tackles these themes with wit and rigour
Telegraph ****

The virtue of Wooley's play is that it conveys the extraordinariness of the seemingly ordinary.
The Guardian

Wooley’s writing is, though, pleasingly sensitive to the peculiar strains of modern-day family life, where grandparents are a vital source of childcare, as well as loans to grown-up children.
Evening Standard

Women who get a new lease of life through merry widowhood aren't a rare breed in either life or art. The twist here, though, comes from the way that Sarah Wooley 's comedy Old Money propels the classic scenario into an age of recession where, for the first time since the Second World War, younger generations can no longer expect a more prosperous future than their parents.
Independent

The production runs on the Hampstead’s Main Stage until 12th January and tickets can be bought here.