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RTÉ News
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Succession star Brian Cox to bring one man show to Dublin
Scottish actor and Succession star Brian Cox is to go on tour with a one-man show It's All About Me tour and will appear at the National Concert Hall in Dublin this October. Cox said: "I am looking forward to this tour as it marks something a little different for me - sharing the stage with myself. "As the title indicates, the show will focus more than ever on my life and career. It should be a lot of fun." Cox, who was born in Dundee, will be joined on stage for the show's second half by producer Clive Tulloh, who will put questions from the audience to him. Publicists said Cox will "take audiences on a journey through his life and incredible career - from the backstreets of Dundee to the glittering lights of Hollywood - a journey that is full of laughter and pathos. "Expect candour, searing honesty and hilarious stories." Cox trained at Dundee Rep Theatre before going on to work at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he first gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. His accolades include two Olivier Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Logan Roy in Succession. Tickets will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday here.
The Herald Scotland
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Brian Cox to tour in one man show
The final show is at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End on November 4. Cox said: 'I am looking forward to this tour as it marks something a little different for me – sharing the stage with myself. 'As the title indicates, the show will focus more than ever on my life and career. 'It should be a lot of fun.' Cox, who was born in Dundee, will be joined on stage for the show's second half by producer Clive Tulloh, who will put questions from the audience to him. Publicists said Cox will 'take audiences on a journey through his life and incredible career – from the backstreets of Dundee to the glittering lights of Hollywood – a journey that is full of laughter and pathos. 'Expect candour, searing honesty and hilarious stories.' Cox trained at Dundee Rep Theatre before going on to work at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he first gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. His accolades include two Olivier Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Logan Roy in Succession. Tickets will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday at
Scotsman
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Royal Lyceum Theatre: The 'dedicated' Edinburgh theatre boss standing down after six years
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... A director of a major Scottish theatre is to step down after six years in the role. Mike Griffiths, who took up the position of joint chief executive and executive director in 2019, is to leave the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad With more than 40 years of experience working in theatre, Mr Griffiths started at the theatre in May 2019, where he navigated it through the Covid-19 pandemic, re-emerging into a turbulent funding landscape for the arts in Scotland. Mr Griffiths's past roles include nine years as administrative director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and interim chief executive at Horsecross Arts in Perth. His impending departure was announced at the theatre's official new season programme launch. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The Lyceum has recently welcomed James Brining as artistic director, replacing David Greig. Mike Griffiths is standing down as joint chief executive and artistic director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. | Stuart Armitt He said: 'It has been a real privilege to work at The Lyceum over the last six years. It has been challenging, but the support of the Lyceum team and board has been invaluable. I know that with James Brining leading the company, The Lyceum will continue to flourish.' Mr Brining said: 'Mike has made a huge contribution to The Lyceum over his time as executive director. From making changes to internal processes and practice, steering through the challenges of the pandemic and working collaboratively across the city and the sector, Mike has always supported and advocated for the idea of producing the best theatre here in Edinburgh, for Scotland and the world. 'A dedicated internationalist and a source of insight and wisdom always tempered by kindness and warmth, we will miss Mike very much, but wish him well on his next adventure.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Chair of the board of directors, Tari Lang, said: 'Mike has had his steady hand on the tiller and provided calm leadership during good and challenging times for the Lyceum, through the pandemic and subsequent funding challenges.
Scotsman
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Iconic Scottish city pub to be recreated as musical writer vows to 'restore story of One Day to Edinburgh'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Iconic Edinburgh pub The Pear Tree is to be recreated on stage in the musical of One Day to be premiered in the capital. Writer David Greig, who is adapting the book for the theatre, said the well-known venue would be the basis for the pub scene where characters Emma and Dexter first meet as students at the University of Edinburgh. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad David Greig, former artistic director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, is adapting novel One Day into a musical. The world premiere of the new musical version of the bestselling novel by David Nicholls, which was last year adapted as a series for Netflix, is to open next year at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Speaking at the Lyceum's programme launch for next season, Mr Greig said he had also taken inspiration from tourist attraction the Camera Obscura in staging the play, which will see the 140-year-old auditorium transformed into a theatre in the round, with audience members on both sides of a newly constructed stage. Mr Greig, who recently left his role as artistic director of the Lyceum to be replaced by James Brining, said one challenge in adapting One Day was that it doesn't have a clear 'world', like many other stage shows. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall star as Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew as Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley in the new Netflix series One Day, which is based on author David Nicholls' best-selling novel. The novel is being turned into a stage musical. Picture: Netflix He said: 'If you go to see Guys and Dolls, it's 47th Street, New York in the 1940s. So you get a designer and you design that world. But what is the 'world' of two young people who meet in Edinburgh in 1988 - then one is going around the world and the other is in Salford and then they're in London? They're just in 'Britain' in the '90s and early 2000s, so that creates quite a problem. 'If you've got a scene change and it's just a year ahead and she's working in a restaurant, it's so pedantic. What we want to do is create something where the audience are in the pub where they're graduating. Secretly, it's the Pear Tree, that's what's in my head. 'There will be this feeling that you [the audience] are in the room. And what we want to do is have Emma and Dexter in a circle of light, just following them.' He added: 'I feel we are restoring it to being an Edinburgh story. I don't know many other popular novels that mention Rankeillor Street.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Mr Greig said the atmosphere of the staging had been inspired by the Camera Obscura on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, a Victorian invention that projects a real time image of the city onto a viewing table using light and lenses. He said: 'In the Camera Obscura, you peer down and you look at people in real life walking down the High Street and you can spy on them. 'I wanted us to feel like the only two people who didn't know they were in a play are Emma and Dexter. Everybody else is playing different parts and they're moving things around and it's very theatrical. But in the middle of it, there is this couple and their story.' The Lyceum has been turned into a theatre in the round before, during the Covid pandemic, for the staging of Life Is a Dream, when audience members were required to be socially distanced. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Mr Greig said: 'We were trying to do social distancing, we weren't able to get a lot of audience in, but I loved the look of it. I thought it was amazing, so that stayed in my mind.'
Scotsman
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
The Scottish theatre bringing 'powerful' new plays to people's living rooms, kitchens and gardens
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... It has been an icon of the Edinburgh theatre scene for almost 150 years, with a grand city centre auditorium seating more than 650 audience members. Now, the Royal Lyceum Theatre is to downsize its audience capacity significantly - when it takes its latest plays to be performed in living rooms, kitchens and gardens across the city. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The inside of the Royal Lyceum Theatre | Peter Dibden New initiative Lyceum at Home will involve four newly-commissioned 30-minute plays by Scottish writers, which will be taken to homes of local people all over Edinburgh - as well as to community centres and workplaces. This comes as the theatre unveiled its programme for the coming season. Highlights include the already-announced world premiere of a musical of David Nicolls novel One Day, as well as a production of Anton Chekov's The Seagull, starring Jonathan Creek star Caroline Quentin. James Brining's first season as artistic director will also include Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, a Dundee Rep Theatre production in association with the soon-to-be reopened Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, and a Christmas production of Cinderella: A Fairytale, directed by Tron Theatre's artistic director, Jemima Levick. The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh | Contributed The Lyceum at Home initiative is part of the 60th-anniversary celebrations of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. The theatre said the plays will reflect the lives, choices and everyday moments that make Edinburgh and would widen its reach across the Scottish capital and 'build on the bonds and relationships which connect us all'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Mr Brining said: 'I was really keen to make a statement about our interest in the whole of the city. We're based right in the heart of Edinburgh, but we want to reach out to people and communities across the whole of Edinburgh. We're doing this project that will involve four short new plays, and we're going to take them out into people's houses.' Mr Brining said he had worked on a similar initiative when working at the Playhouse Theatre in Leeds, when actors performed to as few as five people in a residential home. The Lyceum at Home project is due to launch in mid summer. 'It's a really interesting project,' he said. 'We will actually take plays into living rooms and have people invite neighbours, friends, family, whatever, to come and see these shows. It's a brilliant, low-key thing. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'It's a statement of our interest in being involved with the city in as wide a way as we can, without compromising the work we do in the theatre. It's a beautiful, important part of the culture.' Associate artistic director Zinnie Harris said: 'For the past 60 years, The Royal Lyceum has been at the heart of Edinburgh's cultural life, creating theatre and inspiring audiences with work that is deeply rooted in Scottish culture and community. 'Now we want to spread this work into the community, bringing powerful performances and storytelling into Edinburgh residences homes. Whether it's a living room, a garden or your office we want to give everyone in the city an opportunity to experience the works of some of Scotland's leading writers.'
