Dark Road
Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams
★★★★☆ Invaluable and illuminating:
Remarkably consistent in quality and generosity of spirit, Joyce McMillan’s Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams, edited by Philip Howard, is vital to anyone seeking to understand Scotland’s cultural life in the last 30 years.
#VPT Tweet Thrillers announced
The 37 twitter playwrights who have had work selected for the Village Pub Theatre’s Twitter Thrillers night at the Royal Lyceum have been announced today, Friday 11 October 2013.
#VPT Tweet Plays’ thrilling return
The Village Pub Theatre’s infamous Tweet Plays return next week, when any Twitter user has a chance of getting a play performed on the stage of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum theatre.
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.
The Dark Road Rushes – Seven
Previews are like the laboratory trial for a show. In a preview you recreate the conditions of the final production as closely as possible by having all the technical elements of the play in place and putting it in front of an audience.
The Dark Road Rushes – Six
Tech week – The sixth rehearsal-room blog from Jo Rush, AD on Dark Road, the collaboration between crime writer Ian Rankin and Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson.
The Dark Road Rushes – Five
The fourth week of rehearsals for Dark Road has seen us make the biggest transition of our rehearsal process so far – out of the rehearsal room and into the theatre. Hopefully the experience won’t prove as traumatic as the proverb that phrase is riffing on!
The Dark Road Rushes – four
Dark comedy: The fourth rehearsal-room blog from Jo Rush, AD on Dark Road, the collaboration between crime writer Ian Rankin and Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson.
The Dark Road Rushes – Three
In Jo Rush’s rehearsal room blog from Dark Road by Ian Rankin and Mark Thomson, she discusses the importance of moving round the stage and reveals her pedantic side as omnipotent ruler of the play’s timeline…
The Dark Road Rushes – Two
Getting to know you: Week one on the Royal Lyceum’s Dark Road.
By Jo Rush
After the months of waiting, somehow the first week of rehearsals for Dark Road has already sped by and it’s suddenly September already.
