Treasure Island Ben Reiss 07/12/2024December in Edinburgh can certainly have you dreaming of sunnier shores. When what little daylight there is comes shrouded in...
Bright Places Ben Reiss 07/11/2024At its best, theatre allows us to inhabit the lives of others. It lets us see the world through other...
A Streetcar Named Desire Ben Reiss 26/10/2024There are always challenges to producing a play as well-known and well-worn as Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, especially...
The Baddies Ben Reiss 13/10/2024There probably are more joyous things than sitting in an auditorium of young people getting to experience live theatre for...
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 Shirley Valentine Ben Reiss 14/06/2024Sally Reid dazzles in this superb adaptation of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine. The play’s tale of a lonely and under-estimated...
Reviewer's Rating Sunset Song Ben Reiss 30/05/2024This ambitious but ultimately bloodless adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel should be lauded for its brave efforts,...
