Flora Gosling
Sep 30, 20232 min
Review: It's a Motherf**king Pleasure (Underbelly Bristo Square)
Razor sharp dark comedy on disability and identity: “You can’t make jokes about anything these days!” the cis straight non-disabled white...
Flora Gosling
Sep 8, 20233 min
Review: AFTER ALL (Assembly @ Dance Base)
A show about death that is as silly as it is sombre: The Edinburgh Fringe is full of multidisciplined over-promisers. Often when...
Flora Gosling
Aug 19, 20232 min
Review: Unstitching (TheSpace @ Niddry Street)
Crafted chaos inspired by everyone’s favourite international song competition: For theatre kids, talking about Eurovision during...
Flora Gosling
Aug 7, 20232 min
Review: Shortlist (Assembly George Square)
A wild-goose chase in want of wit: There’s an unfortunate irony in a play about two creatives competing for attention and respect...
Flora Gosling
Aug 3, 20232 min
Review: Chicken (Summerhall)
The perils of fame as told by a fabulously feathered storyteller: Often at the fringe, a kooky concept can be a red flag: the sign of...
Flora Gosling
Jul 24, 20232 min
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest (Bard in the Botanics)
An Earnest of very little Importance: What do you do with a classic that has a lot to say for itself? It is often said that Shakespeare’s...
Flora Gosling
May 22, 20233 min
Review: Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! (Tron Theatre)
An insightful and absurdist trudge towards death
It is a stereotype of performers and actors that they want to be liked – but if the...
Flora Gosling
Feb 1, 20233 min
Review: The Lavender Hill Mob (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
After world-changing events that leave British audiences weary, it’s unsurprisingly that we tend to turn to comedy. As this is the first...
Flora Gosling
Dec 12, 20225 min
Review: Red Riding Hood (Citizens Theatre, Tramway)
At Christmas time you have two options when it comes to going to the theatre: a cheesy pantomime that follows a familiar story with a few...
Flora Gosling
Nov 18, 20224 min
Review: The Book of Mormon (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
There was a time when showing Hitler having anal sex in hell on stage would have been shocking. It would be childish to pretend it isn’t...