Tag: Lyceum

The new production at the Lyceum adds a Scottish twist to the classic fairytaleThere’s no better antidote to a dark and gloomy winter’s night than huddling together in the warm glow of live theatre....

**** A warm, joyful reimagining of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic comes to the Lyceum this AprilMy father’s eyes lit up when I told him I was going to see Kidnapped, based on a...

Some are born great, some achieve greatness… and then there’s Davie Balfour. A swashbuckling new pop-packed, romantic and riotous version of Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure-classic will be on at the Royal Lyceum Theatre this April. The...

The world premiere of Touching the Void, based on the best-selling true story by British climber Joe Simpson, and adapted for the stage by David Greig is coming to Edinburgh's Lyceum in January 2019.Written...

One of the best things about seeing something really good at the theatre is that it serves to remind you just how many good plays there are available to us here in Edinburgh. It...

Charlie aka 'Chick' (Sandy Grierson) is a  dive-bar wreck reject from London sloshed back upon the shores of his native Scotland. Time has changed all. He and his two old Uni pals are now in their...

I'm just not myself today...The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh presents - A Number - in partnership with Edinburgh International Science Festival.Bernard has spent 35 years believing he’s an only child, one of a kind, until...

Costumes, props and sets (phew!) Designer, Francis O'Connor, might be suspected of researching the Caterpillar's hookah and mushrooms with more than due diligence. It readily explains Edinburgh born Director, Anthony Neilson being in league...

Can you imagine six impossible things before breakfast? Try these words -Donald/Trump/In/The/White/House.Perhaps Anthony Neilson’s ingenious take on Lewis Carroll’s timeless psycho-charade of childhood fantastical philosophical conundrums might explain it.The impossible becomes incredible. With Nick...

The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus in a new version by David Greig directed by Ramin Gray composer and musical director John Browne Urban, street-wise, shouting from its relocation to the Athens of the North, David Greig’s reinterpretation of...

The Suppliant Women - Aeschylus“If we help, we invite trouble. If we don’t, we invite shame."A new version by David Greig Directed by Ramin Gray Composer John BrowneOnce an iconic reassurance for those in peril on the sea,...

Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Thon Man Molière. 20 May 2016 to 11 June 2016 Archived on BBC iPlayer is (the rather dashing) Dr Michael Scott's revelatory series exploring the impact of Classical Greek theatre on Western civilisation’s later...

There’s a strong feeling of fatalism and inevitably that pervades John Dove’s quietly masterful new production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the Lyceum. It’s as if the play’s tragic ending is...

Dunsinane, which runs at the Royal Lyceum Theatre until 4th June 2011, is an extremely well produced National Theatre of Scotland contemporary play. In the view of this reviewer it should not be missed!This...