Caryl Churchill's plays include "Vinegar Tom", "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire" and "Cloud Nine", and she has recently enjoyed success with a new version of her 80s hit, "Top Girls".

"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" (Independent) Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham's production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated".