Flora Gosling
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
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
- Feb 9
- 4 min
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (King's Theatre Glasgow)
A lip-smackingly supurb musical adaptation: Whenever there is discussion about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory adaptations there is...
Flora Gosling
- Jan 15
- 3 min
Review: The Bodyguard (Theatre Royal, Glasgow)
A moth-eaten musical that is one cliché short of parody: When I was a child my grandmother told me that all stories follow roughly...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 22, 2023
- 4 min
Review: The Threepenny Opera (Festival Theatre Edinburgh)
A rich kids revival of a groundbreaking “opera”: Right now at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, there is an exhibition of Banksy’s...
Flora Gosling
- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 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...
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
- Jun 2, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Mamma Mia! (King's Theatre Glasgow)
The beloved musical arrives, unchanged after 23 years, in Glaaasgoooow...
Mamma Mia! is one of a long list of classic musicals I have never
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
Review: School of Rock (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Adapting popular films for the stage is a double-edged sword. The novelty of seeing the same story on stage, often word-for-word, will...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (King's Theatre Glasgow)
When you look up Bedknobs and Broomsticks on the Shop Disney website, a sad cartoon character comes up to tell you they have no results....
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Bat Out of Hell (King's Theatre Glasgow)
Musicals often feed into their target audience’s fantasies. As the motorbikes rev their thunderous engines outside the theatre, audience...