Theatre review: Ian Rankin's Dark Road, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Arguably Ian Rankin's pre-existing fame as a crime novelist of some note is what holds his first play, written in collaboration with Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson, back the most. For all Rankin's experience as a writer, Dark Road is essentially still the work of a debut playwright dressed up and given prime billing amidst the Lyceum's current season, and in places it can't help but fold given the weight of ex…