Another rich man, Graves, offers to pay Evelyn's debts and woos Vesey's sister Lady Franklin.

[1][2] The play was revived again in 1999, this time at the Royal National Theatre,[3] with John Caird as director and with a cast including Jasper Britton, Roger Allam, who in 2000 won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the part, Simon Russell Beale, Sophie Okonedo, Patricia Hodge, who won Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Victoria Hamilton.

In 1921 the play was adapted into a silent film directed by Duncan McRae and starring Henry Ainley, Faith Bevan and Margot Drake.

The play was recorded at Bulwer-Lytton's stately home, Knebworth House, and the music was performed by the Endellion String Quartet.

Called Ningen Banji Kane Yono Naka (Everything in the world is run by money), it is still performed to this day.