The Lover Ben Reiss 24/01/2018 Throughout The Lover, a branch slowly grows and blossoms above the stage, mirroring the blossoming of the autobiographical character in Marguerite Dur...
Blak Whyte Gray Ben Reiss 24/08/2017 From the first image of three automatons stuck in a stark white square of light, to its joyous, explosive conclusion, you absolutely cannot take your eyes off...
Glory On Earth Ben Reiss 24/05/2017 Shortly after arriving in Edinburgh in 1561, the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots held four meetings with her implacable Protestant critic, John Knox.
Charlie Sonata Ben Reiss 03/05/2017 The audience file into the theatre to be confronted with a sterile doctor’s waiting room. Anxious people pace across the stage, smoking edgy cigarett...
The Winter’s Tale Ben Reiss 16/02/2017 A tale of tyranny, mistrust and a disregard for the rule of law is a pertinent choice for these troubled times. ‘The gods do this year connive at us’,...
Picnic at Hanging Rock Ben Reiss 16/01/2017 The scene is set simply with five primly dressed school girls standing on a bare stage. They tell us how on St Valentine’s Day, 1900, a group of Aust...
Richard III Luke Davies 29/08/2016 Karl Marx famously opined that it is not people’s consciousness that determines their existence but their social existence that determines their consc...
