Reviewer's Rating Seven Against Edinburgh Ben Reiss 26/04/2022From a new young company of actors comes Seven Against Edinburgh – the story of the first female students to...
Reviewer's rating The Scent of Roses Ben Reiss 11/03/2022The Scent of Roses opens with Neve McIntosh’s Luci calmly informing her husband Chris (Peter Forbes) that she has locked...
Reviewer's rating Christmas Dinner Ben Reiss 09/12/2021Clearly, the good people at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum couldn’t decide which Christmas story to tell this year, so they’ve done...
Reviewer's rating The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ben Reiss 12/11/2021The mention of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow might bring a number of thoughts to mind: Halloween and pumpkins, ghost...
Reviewer's rating Life is A Dream Ben Reiss 04/11/2021You might have heard the story about the man who dreams he is a butterfly. Or is it a butterfly...
Reviewer's Rating Mrs. Puntila and Her Man Matti Ben Reiss 08/03/2020Bertolt Brecht’s Mr Puntila and His Man Matti – a satire of class dynamics filtered through a prism of drunkenness...
Reviewer's Rating Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) Ben Reiss 28/01/2020It is a truth universally acknowledged that every review of a Jane Austen production must start with ‘it is a...
Reviewer's Rating An Edinburgh Christmas Carol Ben Reiss 03/12/2019Ebenezer Scrooge, the famous miser at the heart of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, was allegedly based on the headstone...
Reviewer's Rating Barber Shop Chronicles Ben Reiss 30/10/2019The scene is set from the moment audience members step into the theatre and are invited to join the cast...
Reviewer's rating Solaris Ben Reiss 26/09/2019Everyone will at some point feel the despair of being alone – loneliness is a truly universal emotion. It is...
