Since it premiered at the Lyceum in February last year, Zinnie Harris's groundbreaking adaptation of 'the Scottish play' has won over audiences in both London and New York. Now it is back where it all began, and it's even more thrilling. Multi-award winning Harris retells…
I always look forward to Matthew Bourne's productions. He never fails to impress, inspire and entertain us with his boundless imagination and stellar choreography. It's a real privilege to be in his audience. Tim Burton's 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp in the title…
The characters of five girls who live in a London boarding house immediately after the war in 1945 are beautifully drawn in Gabriel Quigley's exciting reworking of the novella by Edinburgh's own Muriel Sparks. Dripping with Sparks' signature wit, The Girls of Slender Means charts…
There's nothing better than seeing children engaging in the theatre from an early age. They are not only our future audiences but our future actors and technicians. AND our future playwrights! Formed at the Traverse Theatre, Class Act is one organization which is making inroads…
Emma Rice is a force to be reckoned with. A groundbreaking writer and director, her reworkings of traditional texts are sometimes controversial and attract mixed reviews. But her productions are always exciting, never boring, however much she plays with the original stories. The first half…
Having tried to watch the filmed version on two occasions, and failing, I wasn't convinced that Hamilton would be for me. How wrong I was! This has to be one of the most exciting, technically brilliant, beautifully staged productions I have ever seen, with everyone…
Although, like most children of my generation, I wanted to be a ballet dancer, lack of money and an even greater lack of talent meant that I never did have dancing lessons and my interest over the years has wanted. But a friend in the…
The Lyceum's artistic director David Greig is always pushing the boundaries in (mostly) exciting new productions. And so it is with the theatre's latest offering which Greig himself has written. Two Sisters really starts in the bar beforehand, where questionnaires are strewn across tables, waiting…
This is an experience not to be missed! From the war zone you have to walk through, with bombs exploding and the sound of low-flying jets overhead, to an ending which will have you jumping out of your seat, this is a modern-day Macbeth as…
The award-winning Gary McNair has already proved himself to be an exciting and innovative playwright with The National Theatre of Scotland's Dear Billy. Forbes Masson, meanwhile, is a heavyweight in the world of theatre. An associate of the RSC, his West End performances are numerous,…