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.
The Duchess (of Malfi) is writer/director Zinnie Harris’ modern take on John Webster’s bloody Jacobean revenge tragedy. It tells of titular Duchess Gi...
Local Hero opens with big-shot, hard-nosed oil executive Mac pitching up in the little Scottish village of Ferness and offering to buy the land lock, ...
Anyone who has read Touching the Void, or seen the documentary, would be forgiven for thinking it would be impossible to bring the story to life on st...
The traditional story of Peter Pan about the boy who refuses to grow up, and his adventures with Wendy Darling and her brothers in Neverland, is well ...
Cyrano de Bergerac (Brian Ferguson) is a swashbuckling man, a lover and a fighter, a poet and a soldier. He also has a very large nose. It is this nos...
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...
