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Writers: Eddie McCabe, Neill Crawford Director and Deviser: Scott Johnston Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: As part of the National Theatre Connection’s programme for Youth Theatre, as hosted in Scotland by the Lyceum, Telford College PASS were able to showcase their 2011 Graduation show. ‘Leaving’ takes us “on a fleeting journey, giving glimpses of life, snatches [...]

Writer: Gary Owen Director: Leann O’Kasi Reviewer: Edie R The Public Reviews Rating: For a play full of mess – dribbling Fosters, sperm spattered on German porn magazines, armpit stubble – ‘Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco’ is strikingly neat. Everything (but everything) slots into writer Gary Owen’s precise tessellation. The three characters’ monologues yield up serial interconnections as their [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Text adapted: Edward Hall and Roger Warren Director: Edward Hall Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: Propeller, under Edward Hall’s direction has established a formidable reputation in Shakespeare performance with a modern viscerally physical aesthetic grafted onto meticulous attention to the original text. Richard III follows a previous re-working of the Henry VI plays [...]

Every week we try to take a theme to inspire our what’s hot guide, this week we are on a journey through some of the best theatrical delights that are currently wooing theatre audiences in the regions. But don’t worry there really is something in the list that will entice both young and old alike. [...]

Writer: Linda Griffiths Director: Muriel Romanes Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: The Age of Arousal is the latest sparkling offering from Scotland’s foremost women’s theatre group, Stellar Quines Theatre Company, here working in collaboration with the Lyceum team, to stage Canadian Linda Griffiths ‘wildly inspired’ take on George Gissing’s The Odd Women. Griffiths has wittily constructed [...]

Writer: Arthur Miller Director: John Dove Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: A View from the Bridge is last of five Miller plays to be directed at the Lyceum by John Dove. Miller had worked among the Brooklyn longshoremen, Italian Sicilian immigrants, and built this play as a construct on classic Greek tragedy around issues of family [...]

Writer: Stuart Paterson Music: Alan Penman Director: Mark Thomson Reviewer:Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: Stuart Paterson’s delightful adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s Snow Queen has rapidly become a favourite Christmas show since its first appearance at Glasgow’s Citizens’ Theatre in 1983. This week after the worst snowfall in Edinburgh for 45 years it was not at all [...]

Writer: Oscar Wilde Director: Mark Thomson Music: Philip Pinsky Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: The Importance of Being Earnest is the second of the Lyceum’s productions this season sharing a team of actors and using variations on the same set. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Wilde’s Earnest may seem an unlikely pairing but there are common [...]