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...
Reviewer's rating Macbeth (an undoing) Ben Reiss 10/02/2023Macbeth (an undoing) is a well-meaning attempt to recentre William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy on the figure of Lady Macbeth (Nicole...
Reviewer's rating An Edinburgh Christmas Carol Ben Reiss 28/11/2022It’s been a mere three years since The Lyceum last staged An Edinburgh Christmas Carol. However, it is easy to...
Reviewer's rating Medea Ben Reiss 26/08/2022There is a moment in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Medea when Adura Onashile – playing the titular...
Reviewer's rating An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and...