Timon of Athens: the power of money
Set in modern Mayfair and Canary Wharf, with the ruling class in disarray, the National Theatre's new production finds some very up-to-date echoesAs he damns the Athenian elite, Timon exhorts: "Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, and pill by law." By this time, in Nicholas Hytner's new production of Timon of Athens at the National Theatre, the bound servants need no encourage…