Theatre reviews: The Belle’s Stratagem, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh | The Return, Eden Court, Inverness
It begins with a fine rhyming prologue framed as an apology; but in truth, there’s no need for regrets, as Tony Cownie’s new Lyceum version of The Belle’s Stratagem merrily plucks the action from London, where the play was first seen in 1780, and sets it down on the streets of Edinburgh’s flourishing New Town eight years later.