Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre Announces THE GUID SISTERS, 3 World Premieres & More for 2012-13 Season
By: James T Harding Apr. 23, 2012
The Lyceum Theatre Company, Scotland's largest producing theatre, has announced its 2012/2013 Season. Collaborations National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre, Dundee Rep Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre as well as in-house productions will present more than seventy actors in seven plays, three of which are world premieres. Highlights of the season include THE GUID SISTERS, trasnlated into Scots from the original French, TAKING OVER THE ASYLUM by Donna Franceschild and a new commission from David Haig which has yet to be titled.
Mark Thomson, Artistic Director of The Lyceum said “Human nature, how we imagine ourselves and who we reveal ourselves to be is the subject of our season’s canvas. Perhaps it always is, but it has a particularly focussed edge this year. Whether it be the painful and joyous confusion of lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the complex collection of guid sisters who gather round to “help” Germain Lauzon with her green shield stamp winnings or the challenges of Donna Franceschild’s asylum inhabitants and their battle with how they are perceived and how they define themselves. The same could also be said for the plays by Shelagh Delaney, JB Priestley and David Haig. They are all big society plays presented at a time when tough economics challenge us to consider what the most precious values of our society are. Theatre and its great writers have a lot to say in this debate. Who wouldn’t want a society whose values were defined and led by William Shakespeare, J B Priestley, Shelagh Delaney, Michel Tremblay, Donna Franceschild, David Haig and Johnny McKnight. And I’d much rather hear them talk about it too. Much more entertaining! I am immensely proud that the Lyceum is able to play such a pivotal role in Scottish theatre."
The Guid Sisters
From the original French Quèbecois Les Belles-Soeurs by Michel Tremblay
Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman
Directed by Serge Denoncourt
A Co-production with The National Theatre of Scotland
20th September – 13th October 2012 Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Then transferring to the King’s Theatre, Glasgow w/c 22nd October 2012
Supported by Bank of Scotland Pioneering Partnership
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Matthew Lenton
19th October- 17th November 2012
CHRISTMAS
World Première
Cinderella
By Johnny McKnight
Directed by Mark Thomson
29th November- 29th December 2012
A Taste of Honey
By Shelagh Delaney
Directed by Tony Cownie
18th January – 9th February 2013
Time and The Conways
A Co-Production with Dundee Rep Theatre
By J B Priestley
Directed by Jemima Levick
15th February- 9th March 2013
Then transferring to Dundee Rep
World Première
Taking Over The Asylum
By Donna Franceschild
Directed by Mark Thomson
15th February- 9th March 2013 Citizens, Glasgow
13th March- 6thth April 2013 Lyceum, Edinburgh
World Première
Title TBC
By David Haig
Directed by John Dove
10th May- 1st June 2013
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