Scene Changers; As one of Scotland's half-dozen new artistic directors takes the stage with Julius Caesar at the Royal Lyceum, Arts Editor and Sunday Herald theatre critic Andrew Burnet foresees more dramatic change

The Sunday Herald | September 21, 2003| | Copyright

THERE'S something beautiful about a smoothly executed scene- change: the brisk but unhurried movement of black-clad figures around a darkened stage; an effortless transformation to prick the curiosity for what's ahead. The reconfiguration currently taking place in Scottish theatre is unlikely to be stage-managed without a hitch, but watching it happen feels a bit like that moment when the lights go down and the stagehands appear from the wings: we want to know what happens next.

At the moment when the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) has finally received political and financial backing, ...

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