Flora Gosling
Aug 11, 20222 min read
Review: Boy (Summerhall)
“That’s the difference between boys and girls: one has something where the other has nothing.” We are well beyond defining gender in such...
Flora Gosling
Jul 29, 20224 min read
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 19, 20224 min read
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
Jul 4, 20224 min read
Review: Catch Me If You Can (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
A Wife Lost in the Mountains and A Play Lost in Time
“Comedy’s not how it used to be.” “Theatre isn't as good as it once was.” “You don’t
Flora Gosling
Jun 28, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
Review: hang (Tron Theatre)
“It is cruel – how the world keeps spinning. Despite everything.” So writes director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, describing the theme at...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20224 min read
Review: Blood Brothers (King's Theatre Glasgow)
This production of Blood Brothers feels like it exists in multiple times at once. It was written in the 1980s, set in the 1960s, and...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Smile Like You're Happy (TheSpace Triplex)
When it comes to discussions around social media, theatre tends to lag behind other forms of entertainment. There are exceptions, such as...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Afterparty (TheSpace Triplex)
Plays about teenagehood usually fall into one of two traps. If they are created by grown-ups, whose visions of their teenage years are...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Educating Rita (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Is it possible to educate someone who isn’t posh? Though the bluntness of the central question of Educating Rita is a little out-dated,...