Roxana Silbert
What Shadows
★★★☆☆ Puzzling:
There is a delicate romanticism to What Shadows that is at odds with its subject matter. An excellent central performance and high production values cannot ever quite overcome some problematic elements.
Lyceum Season 2017-18
Details of 17/18 season announced:
The Lyceum is to stage ten shows in its 2017-18 season, the second in David Greig’s tenure as artistic director and the final year in the current funding round.
Lyceum season introduction
A time to take risks:
The Lyceum’s artistic director, David Greig, talks about the background to the 2017/18 season and his reasoning behind it.
Anita and Me
★★★☆☆ Indistinct:
Seventies teenager Meena lives in Tollington, a former mining village in England’s Black Country in Anita and Me, on at the King’s until Saturday.
Of Mice and Men
★★★☆☆ Faithful:
Clearly told and doggedly true to its source, Of Mice and Men at the King’s is a solidly effective production that never quite sparks into life.
The King’s Speech
✭✭✭✩✩ Solid:
Two excellent central performances dominate The King’s Speech. The rest of the production, while always involving, does not quite hit the same heights.
Jason Donovan’s Speech for King’s
Slab Boys and King’s Speech announced for 2015:
John Byrne’s Slab Boys and a new production of The King’s Speech featuring Jason Donovan have been announced as part of the Edinburgh King’s 2015 drama season.
Death comes to Twitterland
As Such Tweet Sorrow’s followers are rocked by the double deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, the Annals of Edinburgh Stage publishes this in-depth interview with the production’s director, Roxana Silbert By Thom Dibdin Death came dropping slow on Monday night to Such Tweet Sorrow, Twitterland’s production of Romeo and Juliet. All was as it should […]
Such Tweet Followers reach 5,000
By Thom Dibdin Such Tweet Sorrow, the RSC’s social media drama based on Romeo and Juliet, achieved its 5,000th follower on Sunday morning. The initial increase of followers to the meta-soap was meteoric, going from 60 on Monday morning, to achieve 3,500 tweeters following Juliet, the most popular of the six characters, on Tuesday evening. […]
Such Tweeting Sorrow
By Thom Dibdin Romeo and Juliet is being brought into the social media revolution in a brave new experiment from the Royal Shakespeare Company called Such Tweet Sorrow. Directed by Roxana Silbert – one-time Literary Director at the Traverse in Edinburgh and most recently artistic director at Paines Plough – the “production” will be played […]
