Reviewer's rating Red Ellen Ben Reiss 09/05/2022 1627Red 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 1496From 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 1486The 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 2028Clearly, 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 1552The 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 1777You 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 2537Bertolt 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 2848It 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 2780Ebenezer 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 30/10/2019 2996The scene is set from the moment audience members step into the theatre and are invited to join the cast...
