Ben is an Art History graduate currently working for the National Museums of Scotland. He is a keen watcher and reader of all things theatrical, particularly at Edinburgh’s intimate Lyceum, and has even been known to occasionally tread the boards himself.
The Lyceum’s current production of Twelfth Night feels neither safe nor repetitive. There have been Shakespeare plays set retrospectively in the Swing...
Somewhere in the world, a man is sitting alone in front of a prison. He has committed an unspeakable crime, and must not leave. All he has to survive ...
Samuel Beckett’s transformational and radical play, Waiting for Godot, is a key part of the global theatrical canon. Performed countless times around...
The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other is a wildly ambitious piece, with 86 community cast members wordlessly bringing to life 450 characters in just ...
Creditors is an exploration of sex and sexuality, of power and weakness in men and women, of how partners can be consumed by each other. When callow A...
In a nondescript town, a lot like yours or mine, people are changing. They’re behaving in ways you can’t understand, saying things that sound absurd, ...
To send us skipping into spring with a smile on our lips, Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre has put on The Belle’s Stratagem, a rollicking, riotous dash thro...
Throughout The Lover, a branch slowly grows and blossoms above the stage, mirroring the blossoming of the autobiographical character in Marguerite Dur...
The stories within stories within The Arabian Nights is an immensely appealing theatrical concept, offering a wealth of opportunities to directors and...
You British don’t understand about Europe, spits a character at the hapless Captain Ridley, a statement seemingly as true now as it was when Cockpit w...
