MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Wild Foxes, Hokum, I’ve Seen All I Need to See, and Ada: My Mother the Architect
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ANGUS REID applauds the inventive stagecraft with which the Lyceum serve up Stevenson’s classic, but misses the deeper themes
TIMBERS SHIVERED: The cast of Treasure Island at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
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JAMES WALSH revels in a miscellany of beautifully observed characters, ranging from the parodic to the frankly batshit
MALC McGOOKIN appreciates a graphic novel that records the history of the legendary peace camp and surveys the state of the right to protest in contemporary Britain
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a fascinating, revealing, superbly acted evening of theatre
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STEVEN ANDREW praises a beautifully written and enjoyable read
Treasure Island
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
I relish it when a theatre company has the guts to eviscerate a classic.
In Warsaw in 1990 I saw a Polish production of Chekhov’s The Seagull that reduced the play to deckchairs, extended pauses and daft symbolism in a witty and absurdist act of cultural vandalism. It was a brilliant East European engagement with things Russian and the deconstruction worked because the audience shared the sense of purpose with which it was done.
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