Reviewer's rating Counting and Cracking Ben Reiss 11/08/2022 1452In Sri Lanka, in July 1983, thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during a week of vicious rioting. This horrific...
Reviewer's rating Red Ellen Ben Reiss 09/05/2022 1650Red Ellen tells the epic story of inspiring Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, a figure and a story that certainly deserve...
Reviewer's Rating Seven Against Edinburgh Ben Reiss 26/04/2022 1512From 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 11/03/2022 1505The 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 09/12/2021 2040Clearly, 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 12/11/2021 1581The 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 04/11/2021 1804You 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 08/03/2020 2553Bertolt 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 28/01/2020 2861It 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 03/12/2019 2803Ebenezer Scrooge, the famous miser at the heart of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, was allegedly based on the headstone...
