Faustus in Africa! Ben Reiss 23/08/2025The legend of Faust – an ambitious man dissatisfied with life who strikes a deal with the Devil, who serves...
Mary, Queen of Scots Ben Reiss 18/08/2025The life of Mary, Queen of Scots lends itself to endless retelling, being an inherently dramatic tale of ambition, conflict...
Book of Mountains and Seas Ben Reiss 15/08/2025Out of a deep black stage, the faces of six female singers appear, each lit from above with a single...
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...
