Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis. It's time to work out what's wrong. It's time to look at the heart of the system...

A one-hander nailing the mania for money that led to financial collapse Sunday Times on Maddening Rain You Can Still Make A Killing throws the mirror up to our present natures with a cool but furious kind of satire -- Carole Woddis theartsdesk.com 20121015 A gripping exploration of the murky - and ruthless - world of corporate high finance, which skilfully pulls our sympathies in a number of contradictory directions ... A sure-fire bet for our troubled times. Evening Standard 20121015 Nicholas Pierpan's finely wrought new play You Can Still Make a Killing sifts through the rubble of the 2008 crash and finds rich satirical pickings in the spectacle of men in city suits forced into scavenger-mode. -- Dominic Cavendish Telegraph 20121016 As sharp as the suits of its City traders, Nicholas Pierpan's new play trains its satiric, devilishly clued-up, yet ungloating gaze on the fall-out - emotional, familial, institutional - of the financial collapse of 2008 ... this is a piece likely to cause a steep rise in the author's stock. -- Paul Taylor Independent 20121023 Nicholas Pierpan has descended into contemporary darkness in his epic and fluent dissection of the financial crisis, and its impact on the very people who created it ... Pierpan's script skitters with energy -- Stewart Pringle Time Out 20121017 Pierpan's new play is a cool study of capitalist morality, exposing the Darwinian realities of survival in the recession-hit City ... the dialogue is sharp ... Pierpan makes some acute observations about the social impact of a system under which everything is commodified ... it's a quietly savage, salient reminder of what greed can cost. -- Sam Marlowe The Times 20121017

Nicholas Pierpan's most recent play, The Maddening Rain, had a successful London run before going on a UK tour and to New York City's 2011 Brits Off-Broadway festival. Nicholas has twice won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing for Too Much the Sun and The Problem with the Seventh Year. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Oxford University. He lectures on film and reviews fiction for The Times.