Flora Gosling
Aug 9, 20232 min read
Review: Scent (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)
Top notes of talent but cliché leaves the performance feeling corked: There’s a particular scene in 2020’s Netflix sensation...
Flora Gosling
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Review: Shortlist (Assembly George Square)
A wild-goose chase in want of wit: There’s an unfortunate irony in a play about two creatives competing for attention and respect...
Flora Gosling
May 17, 20232 min read
Review: Love the Sinner (Tron Theatre)
An invitation to a dark underbelly of millennial sins: Performance poetry could be so much more than it is often allowed to be...
Flora Gosling
Sep 1, 20222 min read
Review: You're Safe Til 2024: Deep History (Pleasance Courtyard)
Lessons from deep time, and why we shouldn’t listen to them - Something you may not know about me is that a few years ago I had the job...
Flora Gosling
Aug 20, 20223 min read
Review: She/Her (Assembly George Square Studios)
This is a show about womanhood, telling women’s stories, with a title based on traditionally female pronouns. So why is the name floating...
Flora Gosling
Aug 16, 20222 min read
Review: Godot is a Woman (Pleasance Dome)
We have waited a long time for an all-female adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It has been nearly seventy years, and...
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...
Flora Gosling
Aug 14, 20223 min read
Review: The Beatles Were A Boyband (Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose)
To make a show about women’s safety in 2022, you must also make a show about the ways that women deal with it. In F-Bomb Theatre’s...
Flora Gosling
Aug 12, 20223 min read
Review: Take It Away, Cheryl (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)
The “hooker with a heart of gold” trope has been around for centuries. She is there to offer sage advice, become the object of the main...
Flora Gosling
Aug 6, 20222 min read
Review: Breathless (Pleasance Courtyard)
A solo play from Laura Horton about becoming buried beneath beautiful clothes. It shouldn’t have to be said, but Obsessive Compulsive...