Tag: Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – ‘Hear Word!’ from Nigeria to The Lyceum
'Hear Word!' is Nigerian pidgin English for ‘Listen and Comply’. In this unflinchingly honest performance, ten of Nigeria’s biggest stars of...
REVIEW – The Iliad – A Kingdom For A Gift Horse
“… There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go...
The Lyceum Theatre : The Crucible
The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh presents
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Directed by John Dove
From 18 February – 19 March 2016
“I danced for the Devil; I saw...
Theatre review: Dark Road, Lyceum Theatre (***)
Why do we see so many cop shows on TV and so few on the stage? That’s precisely the question that Edinburgh’s renowned crime...
Theatre review: Takin’ Over the Asylum, Lyceum Theatre (****)
Comedy and tragedy make unsettlingly close bedfellows in Donna Franceschild’s big, popular drama about the precarious revival of a radio station in a Glasgow...
Theatre review: Time and the Conways, Lyceum Theatre (****)
It’s not for nothing that the word ‘time’ has such prominence in the title of JB Priestley’s 1937 drama. For time is almost the...
Theatre review: A Taste of Honey, Lyceum Theatre (****)
A Taste of Honey by 18-year-old Shelagh Delaney first burst onto the stage of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in May 1958, where its...
Theatre review: Cinderella, Lyceum Theatre (***)
Scottish actor and playwright Johnny McKnight is a busy man this Christmas. He’s directing and starring in his own panto Aganeza Scrooge at Glasgow’s...
Theatre review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lyceum Theatre (****)
At first glance, it seems deliberately provocative, even perverse, to set Shakespeare’s famous midsummer play in the depths of winter. And the frozen setting...
Theatre review: The Guid Sisters/Lyceum Theatre (****)
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps: they’re sitting in three huge boxes cluttering up her kitchen. With them, she’ll be able...
Theatre review: The Marriage of Figaro, Lyceum Theatre (****)
Thomson brings a manic energy to match Jackson’s bawdy reimagining of the tale in the world of contemporary banking.
It’s not often that you see...
Scottish Children’s Book Awards – The Results
The three winners of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011 were announced at a prize giving ceremony in Edinburgh today. 600 children from across...
The Edinburgh Reporter December 2019
