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Behind Stage Door: Meet our Lighting Team
30 January 2023Lighting can completely change how an audience view a performance, it might not be the thing you are focusing on when watching a Lyceum show but it will definitely be the thing that influences how you feel during a scene. It can show you…Behind Stage Door: RCS Development Workshops
21 January 2023It’s a new week and we are back at the development workshops for Macbeth (an undoing). This time things are a little different, the workshops are taking place at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow and Zinnie has called upon a group of 3rd…Behind Stage Door: Meet our Costume Department
16 January 2023If you have been following this blog for a while you will notice that we haven’t spoken about one of the main departments in the theatre who contribute hugely to our main stage productions. Have no fear...our costume department post is…Behind Stage Door: Macbeth (an undoing)'s rehearsals continue
9 January 2023It’s Friday, it’s busy, it’s rehearsals. The company are on to act 2 – they work fast this bunch and scenes are taking shape. This week they have welcomed the king, partied, argued, fought, drunk all the booze and seen blood, witches and…Behind Stage Door: Rehearsals begin for Macbeth (an undoing)
2 January 2023It has started! This is when the exciting stuff happens, when every department who has been planning and re-planning since this production was announced, comes together to make theatre magic. Rehearsals for Macbeth (an undoing) started…Behind Stage Door: Meet The Lyceum's first Literary Associate
5 December 2022When did you first come across this as a job? How did you get into it?I learnt about dramaturgy and literary roles in my fourth year at the University of Edinburgh studying English Literature during an undergraduate module in playwriting…Behind Stage Door: Stage Management
14 November 2022Stage management, the backbone of any Lyceum production, hidden behind the stage. Our stage team are a busy bunch and always hard to pin down, they are either in rehearsals, setting up the stage or at our workshops in Roseburn hunting down…Behind Stage Door: Meet Macbeth (an undoing)'s director - Zinnie Harris
7 November 2022We did it! We managed to get a second with Zinnie Harris, writer and director of Macbeth (an undoing); not an easy task when she only has 4 weeks to rehearse the production as well as everything else that goes alongside being the director…Behind Stage Door: The Final Design Meeting
31 October 2022Stop what you are doing! The final design meeting for Macbeth (an undoing) has happened and I was lucky enough to be invited in to see what the set and costume will look like for the production. If you’re hoping for blood, the supernatural…Behind Stage Door: Macbeth (an undoing)'s Development Workshop
24 October 2022Development workshops are a staple here at The Lyceum. We use them for a variety of different reasons but as a producing theatre, making new shows is what we do, and that process isn’t always an easy one. So, what is a development…Behind Stage Door: Producing Macbeth (an undoing)
10 October 2022What do you think of when you think of a theatre producer? Do you think of someone who makes amazing shows happen, do you think about the glamour of working with actors and directors, do you think about the excitement of press night and…Behind Stage Door: White Card Meeting
3 October 2022‘Why did you choose such a small room for so many people?’ I hear you say! Wednesday was our first ‘big’ design meeting to start the ball rolling for Macbeth (an undoing). Obviously, things have been happening between the writer and other…