Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA refreshingly authentic Jacobean setting by the RSC allows Ben Jonson's comedy of greed to play to its vicious strengths Polly Findlay has taken a bold and, by today's standards, radical decision in her staging of Ben Jonson's 1610 comic masterpiece: she sets it in period. This makes total sense since the play, with its satire on greed and folly, offers a vivid picture of the way a plague-af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM on June 5, 2016