As Red Bull Theater heads into the last week of our acclaimed production of Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the Revelation Readings series offers up yet more Jonsonian comedy with a reading of The Alchemist.
The Alchemist is a satire on greed and folly, and no one escapes Jonson’s searing wit, not even the trio of con artists who set out to gull a set of victims that includes a lawyer’s clerk, a knight, a gambler, and a set of decidedly unholy Puritans. The play is a comic delight, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge described its plot as one of the three most perfect in all of literature.
The reading will be directed by Michael Sexton, Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Society. The cast features J. Smith-Cameron, Carson Elrod, Jay O. Sanders, Roderick Hill, Kathleen Wise, Cary Donaldson, Bill Buell, Steve Rosen, David Barlow, Tom Nelis, Sam Tsoutsouvas, and CJ Wilson.
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The Alchemist
Monday, December 17, 7:30 p.m.
Red Bull Theater
Lucille Lortel Theater
121 Christopher Street
New York, New York, 10014
Between Bleecker and Hudson
#1 Train to Christopher Street or M20 Bus to West 4th Street
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