Reviewer's rating Coppélia Ben Reiss 15/08/2022This modern-day reworking of Léo Delibes’ Coppélia is an eerie, propulsive, visually arresting but often infuriating ballet. While the music...
Reviewer's rating Counting and Cracking Ben Reiss 11/08/2022In 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 09/05/2022Red 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 26/04/2022From a new young company of actors comes Seven Against Edinburgh – the story of the first female students to...
Reviewer's rating The Meaning of Zong Ben Reiss 17/04/2022In a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong – 132 women, men, and children perished in chains in the Caribbean sea in...
Reviewer's rating The Scent of Roses Ben Reiss 11/03/2022The 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 09/12/2021Clearly, 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 12/11/2021The 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 04/11/2021You 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 08/03/2020Bertolt Brecht’s Mr Puntila and His Man Matti – a satire of class dynamics filtered through a prism of drunkenness...