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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20030221
Author:Mary Houlihan

MONEY MANAGER: Remy Bumppo Theatre offers theatergoers a chance to discover a playwright they probably never heard of before--Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The nearly forgotten Victorian writer was a friend of Charles Dickens who also had a public rivalry with Alfred Lord Tennyson. Remy Bumppo is reviving Money, Bulwer-Lytton's 1840 comedy of manners that explores how perceptions are skewered by the potential power of money and class. An impoverished and overworked young man, Alfred Evelyn, lives off the charity of his stingy uncle. An unexpected inheritance affords him the chance to contemplate ...

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