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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

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

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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