Reviewer's rating Red Ellen Ben Reiss 09/05/2022 1655Red 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 26/04/2022 1517From 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 17/04/2022 1643In 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 11/03/2022 1513The 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 09/12/2021 2043Clearly, 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 12/11/2021 1586The 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 04/11/2021 1810You 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 08/03/2020 2557Bertolt Brecht’s Mr Puntila and His Man Matti – a satire of class dynamics filtered through a prism of drunkenness...
Reviewer's Rating Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) Ben Reiss 28/01/2020 2865It is a truth universally acknowledged that every review of a Jane Austen production must start with ‘it is a...
Reviewer's rating Pinocchio Enza De Francisci 16/12/2019 2924To date, the most popular Italian literary text to be translated worldwide is not by Dante, Boccaccio or Petrarch, but...
