
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 26, 20242 min read


Review: Fan/Girl (Summerhall)
Football-themed age-regression workshop for millennials
They say that Millennials are more nostalgic than most generations, but I’m not...
Flora Gosling
Aug 21, 20242 min read


Review: Quiz (King's Theatre Glasgow)
Quick-fire theatrics but questionable pacing with Rory Bremner
You’ve gotta love a low-steaks scandal in times like these. We want to...
Flora Gosling
Oct 22, 20233 min read


Review: Funeral (Zoo Southside)
A ceremony with its feet in the ground and its head in the cosmos: As a culture, it feels as though we are stuck between holding...
Flora Gosling
Aug 12, 20232 min read


Review: What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don't See When Your Eyes Are Open
Mamoru Iriguchi’s theatrical lab of looking: Some theatre takes place in the theatre departments of universities, and others in...
Flora Gosling
Aug 11, 20233 min read


Reviews: Without Sin and An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World (Summerhall)
One will make you feel tall, the other will make you feel small: Summerhall appears to be collecting semi-theatrical experiences the way...
Flora Gosling
Aug 5, 20234 min read


Review: Eulogy (Summerhall)
Waking nightmares and shopping trollies in the latest work by Darkfield - If you have a pent-up Pandemic-induced urge to sit in a...
Flora Gosling
Sep 6, 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: Eugene (Pleasance Courtyard)
Often sci-fi is at its most uncomfortable when it is set in the not too distant future; when the ideas and imagery we are presented with...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read

Review: You Choose (Assembly George Square)
What happens when the limitless realms of imagination meet the constraints of the theatre? One of the difficulties of live performance is...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read