

Review: The Land that Never Was (Tron Theatre)
Truth, Lies, and PowerPoint Slides: Several years ago, when I was planning a girls' trip, I came across something called “Bullshit London”
Flora Gosling
6 days ago2 min read

Review: Burning Down the Horse (Pleasance Dome)
A sandal-clad power struggle
Usually, a critic aims to be a fly on the wall, to blend into the crowd and let the performance unfold before
Flora Gosling
Aug 26, 20242 min read


Review: Fan/Girl (Summerhall)
Football-themed age-regression workshop for millennials
They say that Millennials are more nostalgic than most generations, but I’m not...
Flora Gosling
Aug 21, 20242 min read


Review: Quiz (King's Theatre Glasgow)
Quick-fire theatrics but questionable pacing with Rory Bremner
You’ve gotta love a low-steaks scandal in times like these. We want to...
Flora Gosling
Oct 22, 20233 min read


Review: Funeral (Zoo Southside)
A ceremony with its feet in the ground and its head in the cosmos: As a culture, it feels as though we are stuck between holding...
Flora Gosling
Aug 12, 20232 min read


Review: What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don't See When Your Eyes Are Open
Mamoru Iriguchi’s theatrical lab of looking: Some theatre takes place in the theatre departments of universities, and others in...
Flora Gosling
Aug 11, 20233 min read


Reviews: Without Sin and An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World (Summerhall)
One will make you feel tall, the other will make you feel small: Summerhall appears to be collecting semi-theatrical experiences the way...
Flora Gosling
Aug 5, 20234 min read


Review: Eulogy (Summerhall)
Waking nightmares and shopping trollies in the latest work by Darkfield - If you have a pent-up Pandemic-induced urge to sit in a...
Flora Gosling
Sep 6, 20222 min read

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,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read


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, 20222 min read