The Alchemist

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Archive Listings for The Alchemist

T0109122038 (HOXTON10) Firehouse and Hoxton Hall have joined forces to stage a reworking of this classic, using contemporary stories from the local community in Hoxton. Over the next few months, our StoryStation will be found in a stall on Hoxton Street Market. From these recordings will come a new version of The Alchemist - one that belongs firmly to Hoxton.Producer Hoxton Hall. Producer Firehouse.
24 Aug 10 to 10 Sep 10	Hoxton Hall, Inner London :: V204 listing details L0922841907
T01339691978 (ROSEMARY10) This fresh new adaptation by Scarlett Plouviez Comnas finds its setting somewhere between the filthy gutters of Jacobean London and the flash con culture of the Noughties.Company Theatre of Bray. Director Scarlett Plouviez Comnas. Design James Perkins. Performer Christopher Tester. Performer Kevin Millington. Performer Emma Vane. Performer Mark Joseph. Performer Daniel Moore. Performer Lyndall Grant. Performer Alex Williams. Performer Rose McPhilemy.
23 Mar 10 to 11 Apr 10	The Rosemary Branch, Inner London :: V333 listing details L01230656727
T318865152 (RNT06) Producer National Theatre. Director Nicholas Hytner. Design Mark Thompson. Lighting Mark Henderson. Sound Rich Walsh. Music Grant Olding. Performer Simon Russell Beale. Performer Alex Jennings. Performer Lesley Manville. Performer Ian Richardson. Performer Tristan Beint. Performer Elisabeth Dermot Walsh. Performer Bryan Dick. Performer Tim McMullan. Performer Amit Shah. Performer Sam Spruell. Performer Sarah Annis. Performer Ian Barritt P:Natalie Best. Performer John Burgess. Performer Jason Burgess. Performer Jason Cheater. Performer Paul Chesterton P:John Cummins. Performer Simon Markey P:Andrew McDonald.
8 Sep 06 to 21 Nov 06	Olivier (National Theatre), West End :: V373 listing details L0739154019
T906335291 (N103) Company N1 Theatre Company. Director Lucy Linger.
11 Nov 03 to 23 Nov 03	Courtyard Theatre, Inner London :: V184 listing details L0526690063
T2105997061 (PRESENT02) Company Present Moment Theatre Company. Director Joss Bennathan. Performer Don Gilet. Performer Arthur Caulfield. Performer Deni Francis.
9 Jan 02 to 2 Feb 02	Riverside Studios, Outer London :: V331 listing details L198547860
T1017901759 (RIDING00) Company Riding Lights Theatre Company. Director Paul Burbridge. Design Sean Cavanagh. Lighting Mark Doubleday. Performer Mike Burns. Performer Nigel Forde. Performer Bridget Foreman. Performer David Hill. Performer Mark Payton. Performer Michael Peacock. Performer Matt Robinson. Performer Rhona Scott-Black.
11 May 00 to 1 Jul 00	Friargate Theatre, York :: V0389299607 listing details L1237025398
T2092018983 (TP98) Company Third Party.
19 Nov 98 to 21 Nov 98	Chipping Norton Theatre, Chipping Norton :: V795 listing details L267339293
13 Nov 98	Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Leighton Buzzard :: V13 listing details L01233733000
10 Nov 98	Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury :: V99 listing details L1738511232
6 Nov 98	The Gate, Goole :: V1214 listing details L1151217771
23 Oct 98 to 24 Oct 98	Riverside Theatre, Coleraine :: V556 listing details L1971161687
21 Oct 98	Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage :: V53 listing details L0562555971
T1427255876 (CAMC97) Company Cambridge Arts Trust.
24 Jun 97 to 28 Jun 97	Arts Theatre, Cambridge :: V19 listing details L01084264098
T650997865 (TA96) Director Bill Alexander. Performer Simon Callow. Performer Josie Lawrence. Performer Tim Pigott-Smith.
4 Oct 96 to 26 Nov 96	Olivier (National Theatre), West End :: V373 listing details L0956097294
6 Sep 96 to 28 Sep 96	Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham :: V143 listing details L02064199649
Other listings
27 Mar 12 to 14 Apr 12	White Bear, Inner London :: V256 listing details L256008800
25 Nov 03 to 30 Nov 03	Landor Theatre, Inner London :: V254 listing details L1302619069
9 Oct 98	Christ's Hospital Theatre, Horsham :: V724 listing details L0748497525
26 Mar 98 to 28 Mar 98	Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford :: V120 listing details L01655598708
31 Oct 96 to 2 Nov 96	The Rondo, Bath :: V855 listing details L478161246

Details

Play :: While the master of the house is out of town to escape the plague, his house-keeper sets up with 'a cheater and his punk' as the city's premiere conman. A full range of alternative services is offered to the citizens who beat a furtive path to their door - anything from the secret of eternal youth to that recipe of recipes, which will turn a tin can into bankable gold. Masters of the ludicrous disguise, in one amazing day they aim to prove 'who shall shark the best.' Their frantic fraudulence reaches boiling point when the gang receives some alarming news. Jonson's satire mercilessly burns away the dross, exposing a society whose obsessions make it vulnerable to any well worked scam - as long as it promises the instant jackpot in business, gambling, quarrelling or sexual conquest.

Author

Ben Jonson