Flora Gosling
Sep 92 min read
Review: A Jaffa Cake Musical (Pleasance Courtyard)
A jelly-filled musical treat. There’s a time and a place for a silly musical – in the afternoon at the Fringe. Light-hearted musicals are...
Flora Gosling
Feb 94 min read
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (King's Theatre Glasgow)
A lip-smackingly supurb musical adaptation: Whenever there is discussion about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory adaptations there is...
Flora Gosling
Jan 153 min read
Review: The Bodyguard (Theatre Royal, Glasgow)
A moth-eaten musical that is one cliché short of parody: When I was a child my grandmother told me that all stories follow roughly...
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
Nov 18, 20224 min read
Review: The Book of Mormon (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
There was a time when showing Hitler having anal sex in hell on stage would have been shocking. It would be childish to pretend it isn’t...
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
Jun 2, 20223 min read
Review: Mamma Mia! (King's Theatre Glasgow)
The beloved musical arrives, unchanged after 23 years, in Glaaasgoooow...
Mamma Mia! is one of a long list of classic musicals I have never
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20224 min read
Review: School of Rock (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Adapting popular films for the stage is a double-edged sword. The novelty of seeing the same story on stage, often word-for-word, will...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (King's Theatre Glasgow)
When you look up Bedknobs and Broomsticks on the Shop Disney website, a sad cartoon character comes up to tell you they have no results....
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Bat Out of Hell (King's Theatre Glasgow)
Musicals often feed into their target audience’s fantasies. As the motorbikes rev their thunderous engines outside the theatre, audience...