The Changeling
Middleton-Rowly / Declan Donnellan

Beatrice-Joanna is in love with Alsemero but her father has chosen another husband. From afar, the misshapen de Flores also worships this untouchable beauty and would do anything for her. Anything at all. The desperate heiress uses the deformed servant to dispose of her unwanted bridegroom. In one of the most chilling scenes in English theatre, De Flores returns with gruesome evidence of his loyalty. When Beatrice-Joanna attempts to pay in gold, the obsessed servant insists he had another reward in mind - the beautiful Beatrice-Joanna herself. Their famous descent into hell is relieved by passages of startling humour. Lunatics and ghosts people this disturbing thriller of horror, sex and death.