David Greig

Playing With Books – the Yellow Door

Playing With Books – the Yellow Door

The last of this year’s Playing With Books events at the Book Festival was a singular piece. The Yellow Door was even more of a ‘work in progress’ than is usual for the strand as it is not yet even a book. I

Aug 31 2021 | By | Reply More
Playing With Books – the Long Drop

Playing With Books – the Long Drop

..and other recent Book Festival events

The Book Festival continues in its new home at the Edinburgh College of Art on Lauriston Place, and also continues to offer events of interest to theatre-goers.

Aug 26 2021 | By | Reply More
Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil

Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil

★★★☆☆ Human

The latest Sound Stage production from the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil, is a funny and affecting tale of love and obsession set in the decaying heartlands of Scottish industry and football.

Jul 21 2021 | By | Reply More
Adventures with the Painted People

Adventures with the Painted People

★★★★★    Perfect timing and setting

David Greig’s Adventures with the Painted People is a clever and evocative piece of theatre which is only enhanced both by being the first full theatre production in Scotland since lockdown and by its performance in Pitlochry’s new Covid-secure amphitheatre.

Jun 13 2021 | By | Reply More
Lyceum’s L20 artists

Lyceum’s L20 artists

All 21 Lyceum L20 artists announced

The Lyceum has announced the 21 creatives have been invited to join the pilot year of its multi-discipline artists attachment programme, L20, which will run through 2021.

Jan 29 2021 | By | Reply More
Lyceum’s home theatre experience

Lyceum’s home theatre experience

Sound Stage offers “at home theatre experience”

A new play by Mark Ravenhill is to open Sound Stage, the Lyceum’s latest experimental online theatre season of eight new premieres from leading Scottish and British playwrights, presented in an immersive audio theatre setting.

Jan 13 2021 | By | Reply More
Edinburgh’s CATS credits

Edinburgh’s CATS credits

Half noms; majority of wins have Edinburgh credits

This year’s delayed Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland have been announced, with Edinburgh associations for 20 of the 41 nominations and winners in seven of the ten categories.

Nov 12 2020 | By | Reply More
Lyceum stage revealed

Lyceum stage revealed

New configuration revealed in Kitson show

When Daniel Kitson’s new show Dot. Dot. Dot. opened live from the Lyceum stage on Sunday November 1, 2020, it revealed the full extent of the theatre’s new boarded-over auditorium.

Nov 3 2020 | By | Reply More
L20 applications open

L20 applications open

Lyceum opens new artist attachment scheme

The Lyceum has announced details of its professional development scheme, L20, which is open to all artistic disciplines other than acting and will take on 20 Edinburgh-based creatives for a year.

Oct 20 2020 | By | Reply More
Lyceum Xmas Ticket Details

Lyceum Xmas Ticket Details

Seats available by table of 4 or 6:

The Lyceum has released ticket details for the seven live performances of its Lyceum Christmas Tales this Christmas in its radically altered auditorium.

Oct 8 2020 | By | Reply More