The confidence trick to end all tricks, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist is so utterly recognisable, so clearly contemporary, that to update the setting feels a bit like underlining the point in red pen. Here director Polly Findlay plays things 17th-century straight, allowing her audience to make the connection with just a little help from an irreverent new epilogue.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:14PM on September 14, 2016