

Review: Groan Ups (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Seeing Mischief Theatre’s Groan Ups is rather like when a much-loved band puts out a new album that is a little…different from what we...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20224 min read


Review: Press (Pleasance Courtyard)
Sometimes the drama surrounding film releases is far more entertaining than the picture itself. Some have a scandal from the set, such as...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read


Review: Fear of Roses (Assembly Roxy)
There’s something appealing and filling about a crime-comedy; full of power, murder, betrayal, and wit. In some of the classic neo-noirs...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.) by Mamoru Iriguchi (Summerhall)
Most of our sex education at school that was, at best, flimsy. What our fourteen-year-old selves were told to expect about the sexes,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Dreamworld (Previously Zumba Gold) (Pleasance Courtyard)
There are various professions that require you to put on a performance; teaching, customer service, and, apparently, being a Zumba...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: The Importance of Being...Earnest? (Pleasance at the EICC)
Be warned, this is a dangerous show. It involves no pyrotechnics. It has no elaborate stunts. It doesn’t even feature wild animals. No,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read


Review: Love in the Time of Lockdown (TheSpace @ Surgeons' Hall)
I confess, this year I expected the stages of Edinburgh to be awash with lockdown-related plays this August, but I was wrong. Maybe in a...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20224 min read


Review: The Comedy of Errors (The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre)
The new, temporary Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre is reminiscent of a water park. It feels as though we are about to witness some...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read


Review: Curtains (King's Theatre Glasgow)
“Refrain from making anything brilliant, just avoid making anything god awful”. A truly accurate description of what it can feels like to...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith)
After the sensation of The Play that Goes Wrong, one (i.e. me) would be forgiven for thinking that this farcical, meta 1982 play was an...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read



