Rebus: Long Shadows review " Ian Rankin's sleuth fails to arrest
Birmingham RepCharles Lawson is on fine form as a retired John Rebus but the novelist's Edinburgh underworld is missingYou can see the temptation to bring Ian Rankin's rumpled sleuth John Rebus to the stage given his popularity in print and on TV. It is, I suspect, one that should have been resisted. Although Rona Munro has striven to fashion a play from an original Rankin story, the long shadows in this show are cas…