Lumina Theatre Group presents...The Alchemist!

Brought to you by Lumina Theatre Group, whose previous script-in-hand performances include E.M. Forster’s A Room With A View and Dickens’s David Copperfield.

When a rich merchant decides to escape London to avoid the plague, he leaves his house in the hands of his butler, Jeremy. Spotting a golden opportunity, Jeremy recruits two of his sketchy associates, the smooth-talking Subtle and the feisty Dol Common, and the trio embark upon a highly lucrative scam in which they convince a series of rich and gullible dupes that they are skilled ‘alchemists’ with the ability to turn ordinary metals into gold.

Their greedy victims are easily cheated, and the cunning threesome quickly amass a small fortune, confident that nothing can go wrong. But while they are busy predicting others’ fortunes, they fail to foretell what’s in store for themselves…

With a near-catastrophic explosion, a series of ridiculous disguises and a timely appearance from the Queen of the Fairies, Ben Jonson’s hilarious farce is truly one of the great English comedies, as entertaining today as it was four centuries ago.

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