The Outrun Ben Reiss 15/08/2024The Outrun is something of a phenomenon. The original book is award-winning and critically acclaimed, and has been translated into...
Oedipus Rex Ben Reiss 13/08/2024The setting for Scottish Opera’s interpretation of Igor Stravinsky’s and Jean Cocteau’s Oedipus Rex is the Grand Gallery of the...
Grupo Corpo Ben Reiss 07/08/2024Founded in 1975, contemporary Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo have been blending musical genres and dance styles for nearly 50...
Reviewer's rating Penthesilea Ben Reiss 05/08/2024Goethe apparently thought that Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea was ‘unplayable’. Had he seen this production by International Theatre Amsterdam –...
Reviewer’s Rating Trojan Women Ben Reiss 11/08/2023During the all-too-frequent outbreaks of global conflict during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Euripides’ The Trojan Women has been a...
Reviewer's rating La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) Edinburgh International Festival Ben Reiss 08/08/2019In 2012 in Liège, Ihsane Jarfi was brutally and senselessly murdered. La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) positions itself as...
Reviewer's Rating The End of Eddy Luke Davies 25/08/2018The End of Eddy is a coming of age, autobiographical gay narrative written by the French author Edouard Louis and...
Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Luke Davies 25/08/2018Midsummer is a 2008 play written by David Grieg, revised here for the Edinburgh International Festival in a production directed...
Reviewer's Rating La Maladie de la Mort Luke Davies 25/08/2018La Maladie de la Mort is another collaboration between the playwright Alice Birch and the director Katie Mitchell – perhaps...
Reviewer's Rating Waiting for Godot Ben Reiss 07/08/2018Samuel Beckett’s transformational and radical play, Waiting for Godot, is a key part of the global theatrical canon. Performed countless...
