4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Threepenny Opera Ben Reiss 21/08/2023 The Berliner Ensemble’s The Threepenny Opera opens with a personification of the moon singing ‘The Ballad of Mack the Knife’, the song’s gruesome lyri...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Trojan Women Ben Reiss 11/08/2023 During the all-too-frequent outbreaks of global conflict during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Euripides’ The Trojan Women has been a touch...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Anna Karenina Ben Reiss 19/05/2023 Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian classic Anna Karenina....
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Kidnapped Ben Reiss 14/04/2023 After first delighting audiences three years ago with Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel McArthur returns to the Lyceum with her distinctive bran...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ You Bury Me Ben Reiss 20/03/2023 What happens when you love someone to death, love them so hard you don’t want to live without them? Do you run away, are you crushed by it, do you hop...
3.0★ ★ ★ Macbeth (an undoing) Ben Reiss 10/02/2023 Macbeth (an undoing) is a well-meaning attempt to recentre William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy on the figure of Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper), as oppo...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ An Edinburgh Christmas Carol Ben Reiss 28/11/2022 It’s been a mere three years since The Lyceum last staged An Edinburgh Christmas Carol. However, it is easy to see why the accompanying lifetime of ch...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Medea Ben Reiss 26/08/2022 There is a moment in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Medea when Adura Onashile – playing the titular character – stands stock still, ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022 The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and complexity of lo...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Coppélia Ben Reiss 15/08/2022 This modern-day reworking of Léo Delibes’ Coppélia is an eerie, propulsive, visually arresting but often infuriating ballet. While the music and chore...
