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Neil Murray

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Stuart Paterson's 'children's play' is enjoyable but lacks the energy of true panto

(3 stars)6 Dec 2011

The basic story is so simple it’s mythic: girl meets beast, they fall in love, beast turns into boy. Stuart Paterson’s venerable adaptation is a tad more complicated. There are ugly sisters (as if a titular ugly character weren’t enough), played with…

Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest set for Edinburgh Lyceum

Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest set for Edinburgh Lyceum

Highlights og autumn theatre season

7 Sep 2010

Two love stories by two playwrights – performed by one cast on one set. In these cash-strapped times, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Royal Lyceum was trying to save a penny or two. In fact, the innovative doubling-up of the first two shows in the…

Copenhagen

Copenhagen

(3 stars)30 Apr 2009

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen is that rarest of beasts: a fictionalised account of real-life events, dense in historical research, that manages not to lose sight of the human dilemma at its centre. Springing from a fascinating premise (a meeting between…

Mrs Warren's Profession

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 10 Mar

(4 stars)27 Feb 2007

REVIVAL Easy truisms about the corruption that comes with money come as readily to the lips of those in authority today as they did in 1893, when Shaw’s classic first appeared, only to banned for for 30 years. That money should be roundly condemned…

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