4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Snow Queen Ben Reiss 25/11/2023 On the first bitterly cold night of winter, with a biting wind skirling around Edinburgh Castle’s rocky summit, frost twinkling in the air and a heavy...
3.0★ ★ ★ Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape Ben Reiss 05/10/2023 Peter Arnott’s Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape seeks to tackle some very big themes indeed: politics, God, human nature, ageing, death itself. Ar...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Threepenny Opera Ben Reiss 21/08/2023 The Berliner Ensemble’s The Threepenny Opera opens with a personification of the moon singing ‘The Ballad of Mack the Knife’, the song’s gruesome lyri...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Trojan Women Ben Reiss 11/08/2023 During the all-too-frequent outbreaks of global conflict during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Euripides’ The Trojan Women has been a touch...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Anna Karenina Ben Reiss 19/05/2023 Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian classic Anna Karenina....
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Kidnapped Ben Reiss 14/04/2023 After first delighting audiences three years ago with Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel McArthur returns to the Lyceum with her distinctive bran...
3.0★ ★ ★ Macbeth (an undoing) Ben Reiss 10/02/2023 Macbeth (an undoing) is a well-meaning attempt to recentre William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy on the figure of Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper), as oppo...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ An Edinburgh Christmas Carol Ben Reiss 28/11/2022 It’s been a mere three years since The Lyceum last staged An Edinburgh Christmas Carol. However, it is easy to see why the accompanying lifetime of ch...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Medea Ben Reiss 26/08/2022 There is a moment in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Medea when Adura Onashile – playing the titular character – stands stock still, ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022 The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and complexity of lo...
