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Back at Stratford: Polly Findlay

Polly conjures up Alchemist revival at Stratford

20 May 2016

Polly Findlay who directed the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2015 production of The Merchant of Venice, is to return to Stratford to direct Ben Jonson’s satire The Alchemist.

Frances McNamee as Finea and Jim Bywater as Rufino in A Lady Of Little Sense, part of the Spanish Golden Age season which begins in March at Coventry's Belgrade

Golden age: Coventry Belgrade's spring season

4 January 2014

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre has announced its spring season which includes productions of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and three plays as part of a Spanish Golden Age Season.

New alchemy for Playhouse

17 May 2012

Liverpool Playhouse's Autumn 2012 season features a new production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and an expanded programme in the Studio