Ben Harrison Profile
David Pollock The Stage
As a company, we’ve always had to be adaptable because of the places we choose to work – for example,…
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Crude
Neil Cooper for The Herald
IN AN upstairs room in Leith, Grid Iron theatre company are going for gold. The prize is the Edinburgh-based company’s…
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Crude
Brian Ferguson for The Scotsman
A new play exploring Scotland’s relationship with oil has opened in the heart of a real-life industrial site.
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Crude
Mark Fisher for The Guardian
It’s not a velvet curtain that rises on Grid Iron’s Crude, but a great roll of corrugated iron. It ascends…
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Crude
Stephen McGinty for The Sunday Times
‘We’re all complicit in turning the Niger Delta into a hell on earth’ Grid Iron’s new play about crude —…
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Stavanger
Mark Fisher for Scotland On Sunday
Grid Iron theatre company are doing a show in Norway this year. They just need to decide whether it’ll be…
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Roam
Mark Fisher for Scotland On Sunday
In Edinburgh Airport, Ben Harrison sees a child scooting around the check-in area. Everyone else is dutifully lining up in…
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The Caledonian Road
Ben Harrison
London and Scotland, as to the character of the people who actually live there, in what is for me one…
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Ghost Ward
Dr Joseph Britto
I first met Ramji in 1985, an incredibly happy 10 year old. At our first meeting, bright-eyed Ramji followed the…
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Lyn Gardner for The Guardian Newspaper
The most interesting theatre takes you where you didn’t expect to go, but director Ben Harrison takes you further still.…
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Why I Do Site Specific Work
Ben Harrison
When I was 23 I directed a new play, Hare and Burke, which told of the doings of the infamous…
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