The Alchemist, RSC, Barbican Theatre by Alexandra Coghlan

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

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