Flora Gosling
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Ainadamar (Theatre Royal)
The thunderous flamenco distracts from the lack of depth. Ainadamar, by Osvaldo Golijov, opens with a flamenco dancer leaping onto a...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Poles: The Science of Magnetic Attraction (Pleasance Courtyard)
High heels and heavy hearts in Amelia Pitcher’s One Woman Show. This is a title that needs a photo to accompany it. Poles: The Science...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 15, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Swell (Underbelly Cowgate)
It is hard to give examples of the scale of the climate crisis that will get through to British people. A summer that is a bit hotter...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Boy (Summerhall)
“That’s the difference between boys and girls: one has something where the other has nothing.” We are well beyond defining gender in such...
Flora Gosling
- Jul 29, 2022
- 4 min
Review: The Tempest (Bard in the Botanics)
Prospero is Reimagined in Bard in the Botanics’ Staggering Final Performance of the Summer
Back in October, Nicole Cooper starred in...
Flora Gosling
- Jul 19, 2022
- 4 min
Review: Underwood Lane (Tron Theatre)
Retro Music and Retro Writing in John Byrne's Long-awaited Musical
Being postponed can be a death knell for exciting new works, let alone...
Flora Gosling
- Jul 4, 2022
- 4 min
Review: Catch Me If You Can (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
A Wife Lost in the Mountains and A Play Lost in Time
“Comedy’s not how it used to be.” “Theatre isn't as good as it once was.” “You don’t
Flora Gosling
- Jun 28, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Medea (Bard in the Botanics)
An Exercise in Intensity Starring Nicole Cooper
At first, we hear angry shrieks in the distance, whispers about a woman who doesn’t fit in,
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: hang (Tron Theatre)
“It is cruel – how the world keeps spinning. Despite everything.” So writes director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, describing the theme at...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
Review: Blood Brothers (King's Theatre Glasgow)
This production of Blood Brothers feels like it exists in multiple times at once. It was written in the 1980s, set in the 1960s, and...