Reviews

The Cherry Orchard  

“I cannot fault the delicacy of Ennis’s performance.” The Sunday Herald

“It is a powerful performance carefully executed to maximum effect.” Dundee Courier

“Stewart Ennis turns in a sterling, or should that be rouble, performance.” The Metro

“In Lopahkin , Mr Ennis beautifully strikes the balance between the traits of humanity and hardly believing the fruits of his peasant labour.” The Daily Mail


The Selfish Giant  The Arches

“The hypnotic Stewart Ennis narrated the story of the selfish giant who bans children from his garden, in a manner so understated that one felt like checking his pupils for evidence of tranquillizers." The Independent


The Caucasian Chalk Circle  Benchtours

“Stewart Ennis plays Azdak with astonoshing skill - he invests the part with a rough good humour that breathes new life into the play's internal debates" Edinburgh Evening News

“...it is the magnificent, flawed heroism of Stewart Ennis’s Azdak which is outstanding in a universally accomplished company” The Sunday Herald


Haroun and The Sea of Stories  Benchtours

“Stewart Ennis’s portrayal of the eccentric bumbling storyteller Rashid, owes much to those Scottish icons, Ivor Cutler and Alisdair Gray.” The Scottish Daily Express

“Stewart Ennis is superb as Rashid the Storyteller (Bearing an uncanny resemblance to Rushdie himself).” The Sunday Times


The Death of Don Quixote  Benchtours

“Full houses are now savouring the energetic performance of Stewart Ennis (a cross between Salvador Dali and Billy Connolly!) as the rather too dashing, athletic and enamouring knight.” The Irish Independent

“Quixote’s persona of howling lunacy and absolute conviction is artfully played by Stewart Ennis.” Evening Times

“Stewart Ennis plays Quixote with an engaging blend of saintly dignity and swashbuckling lunacy.” The Scotsman


The Dark Room  for your pleasure productions (writer: Stewart Ennis)

"In the middle of a European war whose course may finally be determined by the impact of media images on public opinion, all the questions raised in the script have a horrifying immediacy. Stewart Ennis gives a well-crafted and heartfelt performance in a dank Arches tunnel draped with photographic junk that makes a perfect abandoned dark-room space and the script is studded with self-consciously clever aphorisms." The Scotsman (Joyce McMillan)

"This look at life through the lens of a contemporary war photographer seems chillingly familiar. Ennis's performance is assured and at times compelling… The one-man mimicking of a swinging photographer/model scene poached from Antonioni's Blow Up is inspired and hilarious."         The Times (Neil Cooper)

"A Scottish photographer reflects on the frostiness of his relationship with his parents, on the dehumanising effect of seeing the world through a lens, and on the skills, values and excitement involved in war photography.These are all strong strands, fluidly performed by Ennis in fine melodic Voice in John Cobb's production… An intriguing piece of theatre."        The Herald (Mark Fisher)


Robert Burns ("Celtic Complex" "Out to Lunch" "Parcel of Burns" "Burns for Breakfast")

"This is a thoroughly entertaining, in places rib-achingly so, romp. Ennis's irreverence may not get him invited to many Burns Suppers come January, but if there's any justice, by then his Rabbie should be thriving in his own universe." The Herald

"...a virtuoso performance, shameless, outrageous and irrepressible." The Scotsman

"He charms the pants off his audience and then removes his own for good measure. A winningly rude way to start the day." The Independent

"Stewart Ennis is mannish charm personified as Burns, hale and heart with the men in the audience, gallant and flirtatious with the women… If Ennis isn’t the ‘real’ Robert Burns, he’s a thoroughly entertaining one." The Stage

"Pawky, funny and fabulous entertainment. The best value show – and the best bottom – on the fringe. I was sorry when it finished." BBC Radio Scotland

"The combination of the bawdy humour and Ennis’ superb acting and rapport with the audience makes this serve as a highly enjoyable crash course in Burns. It’s England vs. Scotland in the Battle of the Bards. So, is it “Shakespeare” or “Burns” for Breakfast ? Burns ***** Shakespeare *** " Three Weeks (Pick of the Week)

"Stewart Ennis has discombobulated Burns country before with his outrgeously funny portrayal…Here he's even more surreal... Ennis provides just about as much fun as you can have at lunchtime fully clothed - even if Rabbie's not." The Herald