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Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Howard Brenton's iconoclastic historical drama is a hands-down crowd-pleaser

(4 stars)9 May 2012

You can see why the original Globe theatre production of Anne Boleyn sold out, and why Howard Brenton’s iconoclastic re-imagining of Henry VIII’s second wife was subsequently sent on a tour of the UK: the show is a hands down, no-arguments…

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

Quietly shocking aftertaste of Lyceum Steinbeck adaptation

(3 stars)27 Feb 2012

Director John Dove breaks his run of eminently solid productions of Arthur Miller plays at the Lyceum with this solid adaptation of John Steinbeck. And in a similar style to shows like 2010’s The Price, the sets here are towering, intricate and…

A View from the Bridge set for Lyceum - Liam Brennan interview

A View from the Bridge set for Lyceum - Liam Brennan interview

Latest Arthur Miller play adapted by John Dove for Edinburgh theatre

3 Jan 2011

Since 2004’s Death of a Salesman, John Dove’s Arthur Miller productions have become something of a regular fixture at the Lyceum. His subsequent versions of All My Sons, The Price and The Man Who Had All the Luck won him plaudits and in January 2011, A…

Arthur Miller's The Price set for Lyceum

Arthur Miller's The Price set for Lyceum

8 Jan 2010

By the time he wrote The Price, Arthur Miller was already in his early 50s, an elder statesman of the theatrical world, veteran of the oppressive days of McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, thrice married and widower of Marilyn…

The Man Who Had All the Luck

The Man Who Had All the Luck

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

REVIVAL Arthur Miller’s first play to be mounted on Broadway closed after only four performances, and was barely revived until a successful production in 2002 led to renewed interest in the work. While undeniably flawed it provides a fascinating…

The Man Who Had All the Luck - O lucky man

The Man Who Had All the Luck - O lucky man

8 Jan 2009

Arthur Miller took perhaps the hardest knock to his reputation early on in his career, in 1944 when his Broadway debut, The Man Who Had All the Luck opened and closed within a week to empty houses and much derision from the critics. His first major play…

Living Quarters

Living Quarters

(3 stars)1 Nov 2007

UK PREMIERE Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 17 Nov Anyone who has lived beyond a certain age may be confronted with memories of decisions taken in earlier life that are destined to haunt them, and be they something done to another or to…

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