Grupo Corpo Ben Reiss 07/08/2024 1666Founded 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 05/08/2024 1386Goethe 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 14/06/2024 1404Sally 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 30/05/2024 1101This ambitious but ultimately bloodless adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel should be lauded for its brave efforts,...
Reviewer's Rating The Girls of Slender Means Ben Reiss 18/04/2024 1471Fire 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 14/03/2024 1164Blue 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 01/03/2024 1448Two 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 17/01/2024 1341Michael 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 25/11/2023 1128On 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 05/10/2023 1184Peter Arnott’s Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape seeks to tackle some very big themes indeed: politics, God, human nature,...
