Tag Archive for ‘Edinburgh’
Educating Agnes at the Royal Lyceum Theatre
“You have to laugh,” Horace (Mark Prendergast) says to Arnolphe (Peter Forbes), the antagonist of Molière’s play, newly translated into rhyming couplets by the Scots Makar Liz Lochhead and revived by Tony Cownie for the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh this spring. This adage is repeated twice more, and the audience must take comfort in it. The world of Educating Agnes is disturbing, devoid of human feeling, and the only coping mechanism for both the audience and the characters is to laugh. The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh is perfectly suited to taking on this type of 17th-century drama, both in atmosphere and sheer theatrical clout.
Hoors, by Gregory Burke
The Traverse Theatre, in coalition with Theatre Royal Bath, stages the premier production of Gregory Burke’s latest play, Hoors.
Summer Theatre Festivals – A Guide
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Shakespeare & Company, Lenox Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston, Vermont Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset, Vermont Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bennington, Vermont Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater, Wellfleet Shakespeare in the Park, New York Lincoln Center Festival ...
Blue, Edinburgh
Lucas Miller reviews this Edinburgh restaurant, ideally positioned with close proximity to that city’s most important venues for theatre and film.
Going to the Dogs: The Dogs & Bramble Bar, Edinburgh
Lucas Miller’s notes on The Dogs and Bramble Bar as an Edinburgh institution.
William Douglas Home’s Lloyd George Knew My Father
Lucas Miller reviews this revival of William Douglas Home’s 1972 play at the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh.
The Man Who Had All the Luck, by Arthur Miller
Review by Lucas Miller. Written by Arthur Miller | Directed by John Dove | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 16 January – 14 February. Cast: David Beeves – Philip Cumbus Shory – Matthew Pidgeon JB Feller – Andrew Vincent Andrew Falk and Augie Belfast – Peter Harding Patterson Beeves – Ron Donachie Amos Beeves – Perri ...
Goodnight Irene Directed by Paolo Marinou-Blanco
Director: Paolo Marinou-Blanco Cast: Robert Pugh, Nuno Lopes, Rita Loureiro An exotic place, an eccentric character and enticing story make Goodnight Irene an excellent motion picture – perhaps the best shown in the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Robert Pugh brilliantly plays an aging actor, expatriate and drunkard called Alexander Corless, who lives a life ...