The Changeling " review
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe problem directors of Middleton and Rowley's play face is how to fuse its parallel plots: the seething, seedy tragedy of Beatrice-Joanna and the three men she ensnares, and the gallows comedy of the asylum scenes. Michael Oakley solves it by simply excising the latter completely, emulating the murderous impulse of Jacobean drama by eliminating half the characters before the show even beg…