Ghost Light: Six Nights at the Lyceum
The company rehearses the first two acts once and then leaves the third open. Each afternoon a writer is given four hours and the cast, and the audience gets whatever comes of it.
Nobody is told which ending they are seeing. The programme is printed after the show and handed out on the way to the street.
The writers are not announced in advance and range from a novelist who has never written for stage to the theatre's own literary manager, who took the Wednesday and reportedly used all four hours. Two are writing in Scots.
Two of the six nights are being recorded, which the cast are told about on the day, and which visibly changes nothing.
Running time is around two hours and twenty minutes with one interval, give or take whatever the afternoon produced.
Upcoming events
Paper and Press: Three Centuries of Dutch Type
Punches, matrices and proofs from Enschedé, laid out beside the machines that cut them.
Blue Hour: Cyanotypes from the Raval
Forty prints made with river water and morning sun, hung in a former dye works on Carrer de Joaquín Costa.
Form Follows Feeling: A Bauhaus Retrospective
One hundred objects that taught the century how to sit, read and pour. Curated with the Dessau archive.
Spiegelgasse Salon: Four Evenings of New Music
Four evenings in a first-floor room that seats sixty, with the composer in the third row each time.
Chromatic Studies: Albers to Now
Homage to the square, continued. Colour interaction from 1950 to the present in twelve rooms.
Refshaleøen Winter Market
Forty stalls in an unheated shipyard hall, open four hours a day for three weekends.