

Flora Gosling
Aug 18, 20242 min read
Review: Ugly Sisters (Underbelly)
There is a show about a celebrity turned radical feminist transphobe that has been grabbing headlines since well before the festival started


Flora Gosling
Aug 7, 20242 min read
Review: The Book of Mountains and Seas (Pleasance Courtyard)
Yilong Liu’s emotional play about food, family, and Yelp: Customer review writing doesn’t get enough love. These are people who take time...


Flora Gosling
Jun 4, 20242 min read
Review: Maggie and Me (Dundee Rep)
Surprising portrait of an 80s childhood: It is easy for a young person, especially a young queer person, especially a young queer theatre...


Flora Gosling
Oct 4, 20232 min read
Review: Dear Daddy Who Art in Heaven (The Old Hairdressers)
Comedy that reconciles the gay and the godly: If God made man in his own image, then perhaps his voice mimics each person he speaks to?...


Flora Gosling
Aug 11, 20233 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 9, 20233 min read
Review: 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals (Pleasance Courtyard)
Verbatim theatre with bold confessions and bodily fluids: Nothing sets the tone like some hot pink tarpaulin taped to the floor. It...

Flora Gosling
May 4, 20221 min read
Sound Cistem (Zoo Playground)
Physical theatre has an amazing ability to communicate messages through the bodies of performers. Plaster Cast Theatre’s Sound Cistem...


Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Kinky Boots (King's Theatre Glasgow)
Sometimes the best part of a musical is seeing a familiar or unremarkable setting created on stage and filled with singing and dancing,...


Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Young Vic Theatre)
"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?" From the glossy sheen of the Young Vic's production of the classic Tennessee William's...


Flora Gosling
May 4, 20224 min read
Queer Necessities - Are LGBTQ+ Themes Expected in Theatre?
A few weeks ago I went to see WITCH's adaptation of "Spring Awakening". Going into it, I knew very little about the musical; only that it...