Ben has many years' experience working in the heritage sector, and is currently curator at the world-leading Dovecot Studios. 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.
There is a moment in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Medea when Adura Onashile – playing the titular character – stands stock still, ...
The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and complexity of lo...
This modern-day reworking of Léo Delibes’ Coppélia is an eerie, propulsive, visually arresting but often infuriating ballet. While the music and chore...
In Sri Lanka, in July 1983, thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during a week of vicious rioting. This horrific period in the country’s history h...
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are lauded as two of the finest comic stars of early cinema. Their partnership spanned the transition from silent cinema ...
Red Ellen tells the epic story of inspiring Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, a figure and a story that certainly deserve to be much better known. The play f...
From a new young company of actors comes Seven Against Edinburgh – the story of the first female students to be matriculated in any British university...
In a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong - 132 women, men, and children perished in chains in the Caribbean sea in 1781. One hundred and twenty-two o...
The Scent of Roses opens with Neve McIntosh’s Luci calmly informing her husband Chris (Peter Forbes) that she has locked them in their bedroom, and sh...
Take four ‘business executives from the Salford Pennine Water Company’, strand them on an island in the middle of Derwent Water for 48 hours, and watc...
