Photo: Simon AnnandIf it’s riveting spectacle, challenging ideas and human drama that you want, this is the show to see.
A powerful, relevant and fascinating production.
A treat from start to finish.
What Greig and director Roxana Silbert manage to do is present a broader satire and comment on the nature of cultural voyeurism.
If you care about the future of Scotland and of Britain, and if you love a brilliant, sexy, witty and challenging good night out that will leave you with ideas and images to wrangle with for months to come, then you have no option but to get yourself along to the Royal Lyceum, between now and the 4 June, or to the Citizens’ Theatre, the week after that.
The result is an irresolvable drama about an irresolvable conflict – a work of compelling intelligence, provocation and wit.
It takes a certain amount of confidence and audacity, not to mention chutzpah, to write a sequel to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. However in David Greig’s Dunsinane, which is making its Scottish premiere some 15 months after it opened at the Hampstead Theatre in London, the gamble has largely paid off.
Fierce and thoughtful, intelligent and inconclusive, Dunsinane may be Greig’s most important work to date, and he is never disappointed by either the production or the performers.
While the Afghanistan comparison at times seems laboured Roxana Silbert’s production provides a lively illustration of the notion that our best intentions for others can often lead to the worst outcomes.
I'm pretty sure that in a week/month/year my memory of Dunsinane will simply be of a wonderful night at the theatre.
David Greig and Dunsinane
Preview: Dunsinane, Royal Lyceum
Dunsinane
Greig's Shakespeare sequel Dunsinane revived for UK tour
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh from Friday May 13, 2011, until Saturday June 4, 2011. More info: www.lyceum.org.uk
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