

Flora Gosling
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth (Assembly Roxy)
A bold Shakespearean production that accentuates the evil - The most disturbing line in Macbeth is easily the “dashed the brains out”...


Flora Gosling
- Aug 18, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Midsummer (theSpace @ Niddry St)
Do you ever try reshuffling the furniture in your home, only to realise it was probably better as it was? That maybe the furniture was...


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 26, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Much Ado About Nothing (Bard in the Botanics)
Bard in the Botanics Bring out this Play’s Strengths, but Cannot Overcome Its Weaknesses
Sometimes a subplot is more interesting and...


Flora Gosling
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard in the Botanics)
Why go to Glastonbury or Pride when you can go to Jennifer Dick’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
If you wanted to spend last weekend surrounded


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: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scottish Opera, at Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Do you ever take a nap in the middle of the afternoon without setting an alarm? You don’t know when you will wake up, you don’t know what...


Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
Review: The Tempest (Tron Theatre)
Like being stranded on Prospero’s island, watching a performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest can feel like being wrapped up in a strange...


Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: The Winter's Tale (Bard in the Botanics)
There’s something rather paradoxical about The Winter’s Tale being performed in the summer. In this adaptation, the stage is draped in...

Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
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,...