Lyceum
Review – Crime and Punishment
Absorbing and intelligent, the new adaptation of Crime and Punishment by Chris Hannan and directed by Dominic Hill makes for powerful entertainment at the Lyceum.
Review – Dark Road
★★★✩✩ Intriguing but imperfect:
An excellent cast and some intriguing ideas – which are not all fully realised – mark out the Dark Road of Ian Rankin and Mark Thomson’s collaboration, which runs at the Lyceum until October 19.
Review – MagicFest Opening Gala
Disappearing doves and a moonwalking chihuahua joined this year’s MagicFest opening gala at the Lyceum on Friday for an evening of seriously entertaining magic.
Review – Being Tommy Cooper
Being Tommy Cooper is an odd amalgam of tribute act and exposé of the man beneath the famous fez – which ends up being neither.
Review – Time and the Conways
Conflicts of class and family are tickled and teased with alluring attention to detail in Jemima Levick’s articulate production of Time and the Conways at the Royal Lyceum and transferring to Dundee Rep.
Review – Cinderella
Darkly comic, Johnny McKnight’s new musical version of Cinderella for the Royal Lyceum which updates the tale to contemporary Paris, is “slick and funny” according to Æ guest reviewer Irene Brown.
Review – Curtains
✭✭★✩✩ Royal Lyceum Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin It is unclear whether the book for Curtains, Southern Light Opera’s latest offering which is at the Royal Lyceum all week, is brave or simply foolhardy. But it certainly leaves its performers with a mountain to climb. Not content with killing off its leading lady within five […]
Theatre Review – Romeo and Juliet
✭✭✭✭✩ Astonishingly vivid:
Simple, clear and astonishingly vivid, Tony Cownie has taken Shakespeare’s most performed play and, with one brilliant little twist, created a fresh and timely production.
Theatre Review – Blue Hen
* * Royal Lyceum Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin Gritty, earthy and full of the sort of language that ensures it is exclusive to those aged 14 and over, Des Dillon’s Blue Hen tumbles onto the Lyceum stage with a tin of Special Brew in hand and a couple of unopened Buckfast bottles stashed down […]
Theatre Review – The Cherry Orchard
Uprooted from its original time and place, John Byrne’s new version of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard transplants the action to Scotland in 1979, on the eve of Thatcher’s first term in office.
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