Flora Gosling
Aug 242 min read
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 122 min read
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 92 min read
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 23 min read
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 283 min read
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 242 min read
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 63 min read
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 42 min read
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 94 min read
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, 20233 min read
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