Charlie Sonata The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. Photo : Drew Farrell
3.0★ ★ ★
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Charlie Sonata

Ben Reiss
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...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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A Number

Ben Reiss
Genetically, you are 30% the same as a lettuce. You are 98% identical to a chimpanzee.
Hay Fever. Photo Mihaela Bodlovic
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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Hay Fever

Ben Reiss
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...
The Winter’s Tale. Photo credit - Mihaela Bodlovic
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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The Winter’s Tale

Ben Reiss
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’,...
2.0★ ★
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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Ben Reiss
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...
3.0★ ★ ★
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Last Christmas

Ben Reiss
Sons have a special bond with their fathers, says Paul to Tom in Last Christmas; they’re a model of how to be in the world. For Tom, this bond was bro...
Black Beauty Red Bridge and Traverse Theatre
3.0★ ★ ★
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Black Beauty

Ben Reiss
The Christmas season is pantomime season – a time for two-dimensional villains, over-made up dames and the occasional panto horse.  It is the latter o...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Ben Reiss
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a tale that has been told many times.  It tells the story of a bored little girl who follows a white rabbit down a...
Grain in the Blood at Tron Theatre, Glasgow
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Grain In The Blood

Ben Reiss
What would you do to save the life of someone you loved?  Would you die for them?  Would you kill?  This question is at the heart of Grain in the Bloo...
Jumpy Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Photo Mihaela Bodlovic
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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Jumpy

Ben Reiss
Sixteen and fifty are two of the most pressurised birthdays to celebrate – metaphorically entering adulthood at one end of life and (if society is to ...