Edinburgh Festival: Richard Burton comes back to life as Hamlet The production, by The Wooster Group, is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and will open at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on Saturday, August 10. A spokesman said it the "groundbreaking" theatre company would be "remixing footage of the 1964 production," attempting to "reverse the process, reconstructing a hypothetical theatre piece for a live audience." "In doing so it channels the ghost of that legendary performance, by intentionally replacing its own spirit with the spirit of another," he added. The show is just one of a number of theatre productions, art exhibitions and concerts which will make up the international festival this year. Other notable events include a selection of five Samuel Beckett works adapted for the stage, Beethoven's Fidelio set aboard a spaceship, and the first visit to Britain of Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied's new company LA Dance Project. This year's festival will run from August 9 to September 1.