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Backstage Tour - Faustus in Africa!
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 21st - 21st Aug 2025
An exclusive event for our members.
Faustus in Africa!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 20th - 23rd Aug 2025
Through puppetry and animation, Handspring Puppet Company reimagine Faust’s downfall and reframe the classic tale to confront colonialism and the climate emergency.
Book of Mountains and Seas
- Listing Opera
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 14th - 16th Aug 2025
UK PREMIEREAncient Chinese myths inspire Huang Ruo’s opera, confronting humanity’s complex relationship with nature.
Backstage Tour - Works & Days
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 8th - 8th Aug 2025
An exclusive event for our members.
Works and Days
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 7th - 10th Aug 2025
UK PREMIEREFC Bergman’s latest piece reckons with what is lost when our bond to the earth fades.
The Dan Daw Show
- Listing Dance
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 2nd - 4th Aug 2025
The Australian dancer fuses sexy choreography and touching theatricality to take a stand against ableism.
The Fifth Step
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 23rd Aug, 2024
With a smartly self-referential script from David Ireland, which is packed with engaging, funny, and irreverent dialogue, The Fifth Step proves to be a powerful and darkly comedic …
Keynote Talk: Caroline Criado Perez
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 18th Aug 2024
Discover the power of feminist data to brighten the world as we know it.
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Mark Harding
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 17th Aug, 2024
There’s something revolutionary in the state of Denmark.
Songs of the Bulbul
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus / Dance
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 9th - 11th Aug 2024
WORLD PREMIERE The world premiere of Aakash Odedra’s latest work creates a mediative exchange between the Indian classical dance Sufi Kathak and Islamic poetry.
Backstage Tour - Penthesilea
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 4th - 4th Aug 2024
An exclusive event for our members.
Penthesilea
- Review
- ★★★
- Mark Harding
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 4th Aug, 2024
This is a Rock Opera mixed with a nineteenth century play about the lengths people will go to for lust.
Life is a Dream
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 25th Aug, 2023
There’s a great, restless energy in Director Declan Donnellan’s production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth century Spanish classic Life is a Dream.
Phaedra / Minotaur
- Review
- ★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 22nd Aug, 2023
With Phaedra/Minotaur, director Deborah Warner and Choreographer Kim Brandstrup present a couple of easily digestible slices of re-interpreted Greek mythology.
As Far As Impossible
- Review
- ★★★★
- Mark Harding
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 12th Aug, 2023
The show is derived from interviews with humanitarian aid workers about the Impossible.
Dusk
- Review
- ★★★
- Mark Harding
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 7th Aug, 2023
A community of actors are staging a theatre version of Lars Von Trier’s film Dogville.
You Know We Belong Together
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 24th - 27th Aug 2022
A cast of actors use music, dance and video to tell their stories in this uplifting exploration of living with Down syndrome.
Samsara
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 21st Aug, 2022
Early in Samsara two hooded figures from different cultures meet in a desolate landscape, only sparsely populated by stricken metallic figurines being slowly consumed by gathering …
Members Event: Backstage Tour of Counting and Cracking
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 13th Aug 2022
An exclusive event for members of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Counting and Cracking
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 13th - 14th Aug 2022
Discover the story of one family’s journey through love, heartbreak, civil war and migration to Australia in this epic multigenerational tale.
The Duchess (of Malfi)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Lyceum / Tramway
- 30th May, 2019
There's little doubt that The Duchess of Malfi has become the most popular and successful work written by the English Jacobean playwright John Webster.
Local Hero
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 28th Mar, 2019
When Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre announced that they were producing a stage musical based on the iconic 1983 Scottish film Local Hero, I must admit to wondering if it was …
Wendy and Peter Pan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 3rd Dec, 2018
Rumbustious, fast, furious and funny, yet full of magic and fairy dust, Wendy and Peter Pan will delight all ages: an awfully big adventure and the perfect Christmas show.
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Lyceum
- 18th Oct, 2018
The works by French poet and playwright Edmond Rostand, just one of the victims of the influenza pandemic which swept the world in 1918, are today largely forgotten; the one except…
Waiting for Godot
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 15th Aug, 2018
Considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot is famously a play about nothing.
Creditors
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 3rd May, 2018
August Strindberg apparently subtitled his play Creditors (in Swedish: Fordringsäxgare) a “tragicomedy” but, while David Greig’s 2008 adaptation does indeed contain a few de…
The Belle's Stratagem
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 19th Feb, 2018
Writer and director Tony Cownie has established a particular niche at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, taking potentially overlooked 18th century comedies (like Carlo Goldoni’…
The Lover
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 29th Jan, 2018
When watching the stage adaptation of any book, especially one I’ve not read, there’s often a question lingering at the back of my mind; would I appreciate this more, would I…
The Arabian Nights
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 5th Dec, 2017
Stories illuminate the truth, lies hide it; that’s just one of the lessons audiences of all ages can take from Suhayla El-Bushra’s energetic new adaptation of The Arabian N…
Love Song to Lavender Menace
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 17th Oct, 2017
“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem…
Cockpit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 13th Oct, 2017
Site specific theatre is nothing new in Scotland; from the numerous innovative creations by the likes of Grid Iron Theatre Company to much of the work by the “without walls” …
Rhinoceros
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 13th Aug, 2017
Time and again during Zinnie Harris’s new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s famous farce, people tell each other not to be absurd.
Glory on Earth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th May, 2017
At one point during Glory on Earth, its two main characters—stage right, the young, romantic Mary, Queen of Scots; stage left, the firebrand Protestant preacher John Knox—ar…
Charlie Sonata
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 4th May, 2017
There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always …
A Number
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 10th Apr, 2017
In one sense, this Lyceum revival of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play is exactly the “dynamic two-hander” described in the programme: the only actors on stage are Peter Forbes,…
Hay Fever
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre / The Lyceum
- 16th Mar, 2017
Dominic Hill, artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, apparently doesn’t like to constrain any theatrical experience with the blunt instrument of a rising or falling c…
The Winter's Tale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 20th Feb, 2017
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has all the characteristics of a Tragedy, as we speedily witness the horrendous consequences of King Leontes’ groundless jealousy for pregnant …
Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 18th Jan, 2017
As titles go, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a fine conflation of the innocent and disturbing, although the cultural impact of Joan Lindsay’s novel is arguably more down to Peter W…
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 3rd Dec, 2016
As a rule, the best children’s stories—be they novels, comics or TV shows—all inspire the same question: “What on Earth were they taking when they came up with that?” …
Jumpy
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 2nd Nov, 2016
You get a strong sense of what Jumpy is going to be like from Jean Chan’s impressive set—two jumbled piles of household goods, surrounded by an off-kilter frame of plain wall…
The Suppliant Woman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 10th Oct, 2016
In ancient Greece, it was the practice before any theatrical performance to name those citizens who had financed it, and for a respected citizen to give “the libation” to th…
Thon Man Molière
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 28th May, 2016
Never, ever underestimate the stupidity of the rich and powerful; that’s certainly one of the obvious lessons you can get from Liz Lochhead’s brilliantly funny take on the sc…
The Iliad
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Apr, 2016
It says something about us as a species that one of our oldest myths, crystallised in the form of Homer’s epic poem Iliad, is about war – specifically the bloody climax of th…
I Am Thomas
- Review
- ★★★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Mar, 2016
I am Thomas is an economic show bound together with a fantastic cast.
The Crucible
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 23rd Feb, 2016
In the face of something terrible, we can either laugh or cry.
The Weir
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 26th Jan, 2016
If there’s one moment in this new production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir that encapsulates the quality of its cast and director, it’s towards the close when a moment of …
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 7th Dec, 2015
Enthused with enchantment and wonder, Theresa Heskins’ adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe lovingly translates the classic book from page to stage.
Daniel Kitson and Gavin Osborn
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 19th Oct, 2015
About halfway through the second story of three, in the middle of a series of thoughts on the benefits for men of sitting down on the toilet, Daniel Kitson breaks off, looking u…
Waiting for Godot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Sep, 2015
There are many good reasons for launching the celebratory 50th anniversary season of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiti…
The Driver's Seat
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum / Tramway
- 23rd Jun, 2015
Described as “a metaphysical shocker” on its release in 1970, The Driver’s Seat was apparently author Muriel Sparks’ favourite amongst her own stories, in part thanks to th…
The Venetian Twins
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 30th Apr, 2015
For some, he was “Italy’s Shakespeare”, “the Moliere of Venice”; yet it’s only relatively recently that British theatre audiences have warmed to work by 18th centur…
Hedda Gabler
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 27th Mar, 2015
Many of the world’s greatest Tragedies – Shakespeare’s in particular – are grounded on the character flaws of their titular characters: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and so …
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Feb, 2015
There’s rumbustious joy aplenty in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s infamous examination of legality and justice.
Faith Healer
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 21st Jan, 2015
Reality and performance lie at the heart of this solid production of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.
BFG
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 9th Dec, 2014
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre always has a Christmassy feel to it, with its gilded pillars and Arabian Nights ceiling, and this enchanting adaptation feels like an early Ch…
Red Dust Road
- Review
- ★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 17th Aug, 2019
Jackie Kay’s memoir Red Dust Road, adapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta, is a huge disappointment.
Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 23rd Aug, 2019
"Hear Word!" is how Nigerians start a story, a sort of town crier’s call and Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True co-written and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa is definitely at…
La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 8th Aug, 2019
Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak…
Kalakuta Republik
- Review
- ★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 10th Aug, 2019
Kalakuta Republik will stay with you, for good or bad.
Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 23rd Aug, 2019
Hard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer choreographed and directed by Oona Doherty is at times an explosive, visceral and overwhelming experience.
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