We never ask the right question of the future,” says David Greig, artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum theatre. “If you’d asked me six months ago what the big question of 2020 was going to be, I’d have been asking if the theatre would get an uplift in our Creative Scotland support and if the next season will attract an audience. Then suddenly something else comes along.”
Thanks to a question nobody thought to ask, his theatre has gone into “hibernation” for the rest of the year. “There’s not going to be anything like what we would have understood as normal theatre for some considerable time,” he says. [READ MORE]