Theatre review: The Suppliant Women

THEATRE
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
****
The house lights are up, the audience chatters, a group of young women in ordinary 21st century clothes file onto the stage.
A ritual takes place that may never have been seen in 
Scotland before, as an eminent citizen – Scottish Liberal 
Democrat leader Willie 
Rennie, on opening night – is invited to step up, and pour a libation to the god Dionysus, a full bottle of good red wine lashed along the front of the low, accessible thrust stage specially created for this defining production.
Then – with a shout of “are you ready, Chorus?” – the performance... read more