The Alchemist ***1/2
By: Alix Cohen November 25, 2021: Ben Jonson wrote The Alchemist in 1610 when London theaters were closed for two years during the plague. Sound familiar? Samuel Coleridge called it "one of the three most perfect plots ever planned." (The other two were Oedipus and Tom Jones) Its freewheeling comic nature finds the play repeatedly revived. Who doesn't enjoy the cleverness and comeuppance of resou…