The Royal Lycem Theatre has announced its new season of plays for 2008/2009. There's Shakespearian tragedy with Macbeth, Gothic parody in The Mystery of Irma Vepp, spine-tingling action from Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes..., and plays from titans of the US theatrical world Arthur Miller and Sam Shepherd. The Lyceum is hoping to surpass its record-breaking box office success with last year's Christmas hit the Wizard of Oz, with a theatrical version of CS Lewis's Narnia story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The calendar
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace
12 September - 11 October 2008
A co-production with Nottingham Playhouse - dates tbc
Mary Rose
By JM Barrie
Directed by Tony Cownie
24 October - 15 November 2008
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Tickets on sale 2 June)
By CS Lewis adapted by Glyn Robbins
Directed by Mark Thomson
28 November 2008 - 3 January 2009
The Man Who Had All the Luck
By Arthur Miller
Directed by John Dove
16 January - 14 February 2009
The Mystery of Irma Vep
By Charles Ludlam
Directed by Ian Grieve
20 February - 14 March 2009
A co-production with Perth Theatre -dates tbc
Curse of the Starving Class
By Sam Shepard
Directed by Mark Thomson
20 March - 11 April 2009
Copenhagen
By Michael Frayn
Directed by Tony Cownie
17 April - 9 May 2009
Catherine Wheels and the National Theatre of Scotland present
Something Wicked This Way Comes...
Written and adapted by Ray Bradbury
Directed by Gill Robertson
15 - 18 October 2008