Menace, slapstick and innuendo, Jacobean style

Derby Evening Telegraph | October 3, 2007| | Copyright

The opportunity to see a classic Jacobean revenge drama does not come along very often.

But for admirers of the genre, The Changeling is well worth a trip to the Nottingham Playhouse to see.

Written in 1622 by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley - contemporaries of Shakespeare - it is a tale of sex and violence, set in Catholic Spain.

Classic references, interspersed with the double entendres of the day, and a fair smattering of slapstick are typical style for the era.

The plot is quite complex as the impetus Beatrice-Joanna will stoop to anything to get her own way - even murder.

In her first ...

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