A powerful gentleman from Alicante wants to marry his daughter to a nobleman whom he does not want because he is in love with another gentleman he has just met. cut off desires
from his father, he needs the services of a deformed maid to solve the problem with false promises. In this way, what at first seemed like a simple game of falling in love and cheating eventually turns into a grim tale of passion and betrayal that comes close to a brutal conclusion.
El Trueque (The Changeling, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, 1622) is the only English Renaissance play historically set in Alicante.
especially in the church of Santa María and in Castillo de Santa Bárbara, symbolic places of the city.
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of its English premiere this year, we are staging the “Premier” of the Spanish version of the drama.