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.
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...
The Birmingham Speech. That is what Enoch Powell termed his diatribe better known to most by the moniker ‘Rivers of Blood’. Powell’s title hid beneath...
From the first image of three automatons stuck in a stark white square of light, to its joyous, explosive conclusion, you absolutely cannot take your eyes off...
The audience file into the theatre to be confronted with a sterile doctor’s waiting room. Anxious people pace across the stage, smoking edgy cigarett...
The world of Hay Fever is split in two. On one side is the Bliss family, fabulous and Bohemian, smoking endless, effortless cigarettes and calling eve...
A tale of tyranny, mistrust and a disregard for the rule of law is a pertinent choice for these troubled times. ‘The gods do this year connive at us’,...
The scene is set simply with five primly dressed school girls standing on a bare stage. They tell us how on St Valentine’s Day, 1900, a group of Aust...