The Alchemist review " Jonson is turned to gold
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA judiciously pruned script and a fine gallery of rogues make Polly Findlay's production singThe genius of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist is that while the obvious target is greed, the characters really want something they cannot hold. They want to change themselves and their surroundings. Base metal into gold. Servant into master. Timid clerk into a being who communes with fairies.This is comedy…