Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

Overview

THE STORY: LONDON. 1610. It’s plague time again. When a wealthy gentleman flees to the country, his trusted servant opens his house to a pair of con artists and sets up a den of criminal capitalism. Claiming alchemical powers, the quick-witted trio fleece an onslaught of greedy sheep with their virtuosic ability to improvise amidst increasingly frantic comings and goings. It’s comic gold with dupes, double-dupes, duels, disguises, and a lucky flea named “Lewis”.

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Authors

Jeffrey Hatcher

Jeffrey Hatcher. Broadway: Never Gonna Dance (Book). Off-Broadway: Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club; Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages; Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at The Minetta Lane; Murder By Poe, The Turn of the Sc ...

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