Stay ConnectedWith The Lyceum auditorium sitting empty for the first time in decades during the current pandemic, Artistic Director David Greig is inviting artists and audiences alike to contribute their stories about life in these unprecedented times in a Letter to The Lyceum. All letters received will be added to the website below to form a collective portrait of a world turned upside down.
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Karine's letter takes us back from the Lyceum stage to former plague times, via the birds that visited her Midlothian garden during lockdown.
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Lesley Hart reads Philip Howard's letter, on a theatre populated with the ghosts of past productions.
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Sam's evocative letter takes us back to his first encounters with the Lyceum as an usher, and latterly as a member of the Lyceum Youth Theatre.
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Tony Cownie's Letter to the Lyceum evokes the spirit of the theatre's resident ghost, Ellen Terry.
Read by Lesley Hart.
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Playwright Sara Shaarawi pens a letter about the unexpected experience of swapping the big city for lockdown on the Isle of Colonsay.
Read by Saskia Ashdown.
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Starting out from her roots in the lang toun; Val McDermid reflects on the 'perpetual promise' of theatre.
Read by Lesley Hart.
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From the surreal to the sensual, the profound to the practical, Alec Finlay's letter weaves a tapestry from memories of live performance in Scotland.
Read by Saskia Ashdown.
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Peter Forbes reads Neal Ascherson's Letter to the Lyceum on the sensuality, possibility and power represented by an empty theatre.
Music by Rachel Newton
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Peter Forbes reads a letter penned by musician and broadcaster Ricky Ross: a heartfelt tribute to a true devotee of Scottish theatre.
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Emma Frankland reads Harry Josephine Giles's letter, which considers how the example of mutual aid within the trans community can inform wider attitudes to art and community in the post-Covid world.
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