The Changeling

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a seacaptain Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely very British pace Helen Mirren is riveting as BeatriceJoanna a young lass already torn by love and commitmentBeatriceJoanna Helen Mirren is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo Malcolm Reynolds but is in love with Alsemero Brian Cox She hires her fathers manservant De Flores Stanley Baker to kill Alonzo but after he has done so she realises De Flores wants her as a rewardThe Changeling was an instalment of the BBCs Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley