The Alchemist
Past productions
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London and Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Let Them Call It Mischief, White Bear Theatre, London
- National Theatre – Olivier, National Theatre
- RNT and Birmingham repertory Theatre co-production, National Theatre – Olivier, National Theatre
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Newcastle Playhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Cambridge Theatre Company, UK Tour
- Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- National Theatre and Young Vic, Young Vic, London
- Leeds Playhouse
- Cambridge Theatre Company, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon
- Farnham Repertory Company, Castle Theatre, Farnham
- The Old Vic, London
- Drama Department, Bristol University
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal
- New Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London
- Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool
- Malvern Theatre, Worcestershire
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- London
A play by Ben Jonson
The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King’s Men, it is generally considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play’s clever fulfillment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage (except for a period of neglect during the Victorian era).