Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre has announced a 2012-13 season on its own stage and across Scotland and the UK including partnerships with the National Theatre of Scotland, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Dundee Rep Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre.
The season opens in September with The Guid Sisters, translated into Scots by Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay from the play Les Belles-soeurs by Québecois writer Michel Tremblay with a Scottish, all-female cast and a leading Canadian director in Serge Denoncourt. Following this, Matthew Lenton of Vanishing Point returns to the Lyceum to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream.
For Christmas, Johnny McKnight will write a new version of Cinderella with original songs by Alan Penman, directed by Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson, and then associate artist Tony Cownie will open 2013 with a new production of A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney.
The Lyceum's second co-production with Dundee Rep will be J B Priestley's Time and the Conways directed by Dundee Rep associate director Jemima Levick, followed by the première of a stage adaptation of Donna Franceschild's BAFTA-winning TV series Takin' Over The Asylum from 1994 in a co-production with the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, directed by Mark Thomson.
The season will end with a new play commissioned from David Haig—who recently starred in The Madness of George III in the West End—with a title yet to be confirmed about a Scottish meteorologist who helped to save Europe in 1944, directed by Lyceum associate artist John Dove, staged in association with Chichester Festival Theatre.
For more information, see www.lyceum.org.uk.