Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Granny Smith (French Institute in Scotland)
For anyone who studies theatre, or takes an academic interest at least, almost all performances are an opportunity to learn. Sometimes...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Daddy Drag (Tron Glasgow)
If you look at the marketing for Daddy Drag, you will see a dapper-looking gentlelady in a tuxedo, with slicked-back hair, a neat stubble...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 1 min
Review: Evaluation (The Greenhouse)
Understandably, the environmental crisis is a focal point of more Fringe shows than ever. But, as with previous years, a lot of companies...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Romeo and Juliet - One-Man Musical (TheSpace at Surgeon's Hall)
This year there are (at least) five productions of Romeo and Juliet at the fringe. When a show is trying to trying to add a little more...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Baby Face (Tron Theatre)
For those who have seen it, it is difficult to watch “Baby Face” and not be reminded of a certain 70s TV advert for “Love’s Baby Soft”,...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Phone Whore (BATS Theatre)
With any piece of theatre about sex, or in any way related to sex, the ever-present question is "how graphic?" or "how kinky?" it will...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Girl You Want (BATS Theatre)
"Girl You Want", by Tess Mitchell, is intended to be an embodiment of her youth. Semi-autobiographical and not following any strict...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Poet Vs Pageant (BATS Theatre)
Trying to enchant an audience with a story on the back of wit and rhyme, is a style and a performance type not done enough in this time....
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: My Best Dead Friend (BATS Theatre)
A personal tragedy may not be the first thought that comes to mind when writing a storytelling comedy, or to use a brutally honest title...