The new artistic director of Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre explains how The Suppliant Women, Aeschylus’s 2,500-year-old play about a refugee crisis, offers a ‘profound statement on the purpose of theatre’ David Greig, the recently installed artistic director of Edinburgh’s venerable Royal Lyceum theatre, says there are a hundred reasons why he chose a 2,500-year-old play to be the opening production of his debut season. But those familiar with the funny, sexy, challenging work of the award-winning playwright may be surprised to learn that one of them is a millennia-old pipe called an aulos. Greig had already been in discussion with director Ramin Gray and composer John Browne, with whom he collaborated on the internationally acclaimed The Events, about the possibility of staging one of the world’s oldest plays, The Suppliant Women by ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Continue reading...
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