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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Sylvia Dow reflects on her 75 year relationship with the Lyceum and the separation anxiety that has resulted from lockdown.
Read by Maureen Beattie.
Music by Rachel Newton.
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Ian Rankin recalls his first encounters with the Lyceum as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, alongside later opportunities to view the craft of theatre making up close. Read by Steven McNicoll.
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Writing from Ramallah, Raja Shehadeh contrasts the coronavirus lockdown with that imposed on the West Bank in 2002. Read by Steven McNicoll.
Music by Rachel Newton.
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Playwright and academic Dan Rebellato's Letter to the Lyceum asks us to think about the 'everything and nothing' present in an empty theatre. Read by Emma Frankland.
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Maureen Beattie reads Lewis Hetherington's letter, which offers up a vision of the Lyceum as a living habitat for a diverse array of lifeforms.
Music by Rachel Newton.
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Jenny Lindsay readers her letter to the 'old lady of Grindlay Street,' reflecting on youth, ageing, and the significance of participation in theatre.
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Nicola Roy reads Jules Horne's letter about how the theatre is packed to the rafters with bogles and all the shows live on in the audience, who are looking forward to coming back after lockdown.
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Jules Horne is a writer and musician from the Scottish Borders who loves getting the train up to the Lyceum.
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Award winning novelist and former Edinburgh makar Ron Butlin writes to the Lyceum, and wonders if theatre can inspire us to re-think some of the big themes that have emerged out of the pandemic. How do we find better forms of leadership? How can we re-set our relationship to the planet?
Read by Steven McNicoll.
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David returns for a rake through the Lyceum's audience letters bag: in which characters old and new, on and off stage, pen a variety of romantic missives to the theatre they miss so much.
Read by Hannah Jarrett Scott. Music by Rachel Newton.
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Emma McCaffrey, who was set to perform with Lung Ha on the Lyceum stage this year, thinks back to how a chance encounter with an usher at our Stage Door led to her own involvement in theatre.
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