Reviewer's Rating The Girls of Slender Means Ben Reiss 18/04/2024Fire destroys. But it can also be a renewing force. For the five young women at the heart of The...
Reviewer's Rating Blue Beard Ben Reiss 14/03/2024Blue Beard is an old tale of male violence and the punishment of women. The version best-known today has its...
Reviewer's Rating Two Sisters Ben Reiss 01/03/2024Two Sisters, a new play written by the Lyceum’s Artistic Director David Greig and directed by Lyceum Associate Wils Wilson,...
Reviewer’s Rating Jekyll and Hyde Ben Reiss 17/01/2024Michael Fentiman and Gary McNair’s retelling of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr...
Reviewer’s Rating The Snow Queen Ben Reiss 25/11/2023On the first bitterly cold night of winter, with a biting wind skirling around Edinburgh Castle’s rocky summit, frost twinkling...
Reviewer's Rating Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape Ben Reiss 05/10/2023Peter Arnott’s Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape seeks to tackle some very big themes indeed: politics, God, human nature,...
Reviewer's Rating The Threepenny Opera Ben Reiss 21/08/2023The Berliner Ensemble’s The Threepenny Opera opens with a personification of the moon singing ‘The Ballad of Mack the Knife’,...
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 Anna Karenina Ben Reiss 19/05/2023Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian...
Reviewer's rating Kidnapped Ben Reiss 14/04/2023After first delighting audiences three years ago with Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel McArthur returns to the Lyceum with...
