Theatre review: Solaris, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

A dark screen, and the image of an ocean; sometimes limpid and still, sometimes heaving itself into waves and strands, as if shifting into some altered state. The shutter rises, revealing a wide, screen-shaped stage, and a white room on a spaceship, orbiting the mysterious oceanic planet Solaris. A scientist arrives, after a long journey from Earth. She is a psychologist, Kris Kelvin, sent to find out why the crew are no longer responding to messages. And within hours she begins to understand, as she is suddenly faced with the apparently full-blooded presence of Ray, a long-dead young man she once loved.