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...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Coppélia Ben Reiss 15/08/2022 This modern-day reworking of Léo Delibes’ Coppélia is an eerie, propulsive, visually arresting but often infuriating ballet. While the music and chore...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Counting and Cracking Ben Reiss 11/08/2022 In Sri Lanka, in July 1983, thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during a week of vicious rioting. This horrific period in the country’s history h...
3.0★ ★ ★ Red Ellen Ben Reiss 09/05/2022 Red Ellen tells the epic story of inspiring Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, a figure and a story that certainly deserve to be much better known. The play f...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Seven Against Edinburgh Ben Reiss 26/04/2022 From a new young company of actors comes Seven Against Edinburgh – the story of the first female students to be matriculated in any British university...
3.0★ ★ ★ The Scent of Roses Ben Reiss 11/03/2022 The Scent of Roses opens with Neve McIntosh’s Luci calmly informing her husband Chris (Peter Forbes) that she has locked them in their bedroom, and sh...
