Flora Gosling
Aug 202 min read
Review: How I Learned to Swim (Summerhall)
Sorrowful solo performance stays in the shallows
If this were just a show about learning to swim at the age of thirty, that would be...
Flora Gosling
Jun 283 min read
Review: Jane Eyre (Bard in the Botanics)
Brontë in the park fails to leave a mark: Next to me, three women in fold-out chairs are trying to discreetly open a bottle of bubbly...
Flora Gosling
Jun 242 min read
Review: Life of Pi (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
How do you create an ocean on stage, my boyfriend questions as we queue outside Theatre Royal? As countless Tempest...
Flora Gosling
Mar 13 min read
Review: Escaped Alone (Tron Theatre)
Two worlds are spliced together and served with tea and biscuits: When the curtain is dramatically drawn back...
Flora Gosling
Aug 22, 20234 min read
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
Aug 19, 20232 min read
Review: Unstitching (TheSpace @ Niddry Street)
Crafted chaos inspired by everyone’s favourite international song competition: For theatre kids, talking about Eurovision during...
Flora Gosling
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Review: Jekyll and Hyde (Bard in the Botanics)
Director Jennifer Dick has gotten too big for her botanicals: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde has a legend and an influence that...
Flora Gosling
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Review: Ainadamar (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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...