Letters to the Lyceum

Karine's letter takes us back from the Lyceum stage to former plague times, via the birds that visited her Midlothian garden during lockdown.

Lesley Hart reads Philip Howard's letter, on a theatre populated with the ghosts of past productions.

Sam's evocative letter takes us back to his first encounters with the Lyceum as an usher, and latterly as a member of the Lyceum Youth Theatre.

Tony Cownie's Letter to the Lyceum evokes the spirit of the theatre's resident ghost, Ellen Terry. Read by Lesley Hart.

Playwright Sara Shaarawi pens a letter about the unexpected experience of swapping the big city for lockdown on the Isle of Colonsay. Read by Saskia Ashdown.

Starting out from her roots in the lang toun; Val McDermid reflects on the 'perpetual promise' of theatre. Read by Lesley Hart.

From the surreal to the sensual, the profound to the practical, Alec Finlay's letter weaves a tapestry from memories of live performance in Scotland. Read by Saskia Ashdown.

Peter Forbes reads Neal Ascherson's Letter to the Lyceum on the sensuality, possibility and power represented by an empty theatre.Music by Rachel Newton