The original production of Love and Money by Dennis Kelly played at the Royal Exchange, Manchester before it transferred to the newly opened Young Vic Maria studio in 2006 and was directed by Matthew Dunster.

When he realised that they were taking too long he feeds his unconscious wife vodka so as to kill her, the lady is horrified and refuses to reply to David.

The speech is very philosophical contrasted to the materialistic chatter of before however the future is foreshadowed as Jess claims that now she is going to be married she would like to be a little bit more like the people in the magazines.

On the whole the play was generally well reviewed and hailed as a truthful analysis of the destructive nature of materialism receiving 4 stars in The Independent.

[5] and Charles Spencer for the Daily Telegraph said; "One of the best new plays of the year...One leaves the theatre with the exhilarating certainty that one has encountered a dramatist blessed with both rare skill and a profound understanding of the way we live now."