Flora Gosling
- Aug 24
- 2 min
Review: Hold on to Your Butts (Pleasance Courtyard)
Dinosaur parody is a roaring good time
It’s not often that a limited budget works in a show’s favour. Usually, if you are putting on a
Flora Gosling
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Review: 1984 (Summerhall)
An all-too-real Orwellian hell: George Orwell’s 1949 novel about a dystopian society is the favourite reference point of every...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 9
- 2 min
Review: OWEaDEBT (Summerhall)
Feathered fun with a crazy swan: You probably know that Swan Lake is a story that can be told in many different ways. Some versions have...
Flora Gosling
- Jul 2
- 3 min
Review: Hedda Gabler (Bard in the Botanics)
Nicole Cooper shines as Hedda: Nothing proves a point about women’s “infinite variety” like opening your season with Jane Eyre and...
Flora Gosling
- Jun 28
- 3 min
Review: Jane Eyre (Bard in the Botanics)
Brontë in the park fails to leave a mark: Next to me, three women in fold-out chairs are trying to discreetly open a bottle of bubbly...
Flora Gosling
- Jun 24
- 2 min
Review: Life of Pi (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
How do you create an ocean on stage, my boyfriend questions as we queue outside Theatre Royal? As countless Tempest...
Flora Gosling
- Jun 6
- 3 min
Review: The 39 Steps (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Frenzied performances and a slow death: Urgh another adaptation of an old film that does nothing with the source material…but what is this?
Flora Gosling
- Jun 4
- 2 min
Review: Maggie and Me (Dundee Rep)
Surprising portrait of an 80s childhood: It is easy for a young person, especially a young queer person, especially a young queer theatre...
Flora Gosling
- Feb 9
- 4 min
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (King's Theatre Glasgow)
A lip-smackingly supurb musical adaptation: Whenever there is discussion about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory adaptations there is...
Flora Gosling
- Dec 30, 2023
- 3 min
Review: A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep)
A ghost of Christmas past revisits the Rep: Many theatres across the UK are haunted by unfinished work brought to a sudden end by COVID-19