Flora Gosling
Sep 92 min read
Review: A Jaffa Cake Musical (Pleasance Courtyard)
A jelly-filled musical treat. There’s a time and a place for a silly musical – in the afternoon at the Fringe. Light-hearted musicals are...
Flora Gosling
Aug 262 min read
Review: Burning Down the Horse (Pleasance Dome)
A sandal-clad power struggle
Usually, a critic aims to be a fly on the wall, to blend into the crowd and let the performance unfold before
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 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 83 min read
Review: Radiant Vermin (Tron Theatre)
Soft furnishings and social commentary: How far would you go for some parquet flooring and a smeg fridge? In Philip Ridley’s dark comedy...
Flora Gosling
Jun 183 min read
Review: Cluedo 2 The Next Chapter (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Murder mystery sequel is dead on arrival: Sequels are a rare thing in theatre, particularly outside of a bubble like London or the Fringe...
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
Apr 263 min read
Review: This is Where We Get Off (Websters Theatre)
A sitcom cast imprisoned in a play:
This is Where We Get Off, by Ingram Noble and Heather Spiden, has very little to do with buses....
Flora Gosling
Feb 173 min read
Review: Marx in London! (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
A farce that fails to hit the Marx: Twenty minutes before Tuesday’s performance of Marx in London I ran into someone I met once..
Flora Gosling
Oct 4, 20232 min read
Review: Dear Daddy Who Art in Heaven (The Old Hairdressers)
Comedy that reconciles the gay and the godly: If God made man in his own image, then perhaps his voice mimics each person he speaks to?...