Flora Gosling
May 143 min read
Review: La traviata (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Picking up “The Fallen Woman”: La traviata, which translates to “The Fallen Woman”, was initially intended to be called “Love and Death”...
Flora Gosling
Feb 173 min read
Review: Marx in London! (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
A farce that fails to hit the Marx: Twenty minutes before Tuesday’s performance of Marx in London I ran into someone I met once..
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
Jun 9, 20233 min read
Review: Carmen (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Half-play, half-opera, half-successful.
Falling in love with someone because they threw you a flower is hardly realistic, but you don’t...
Flora Gosling
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Review: Ainadamar (Theatre Royal Glasgow)
The thunderous flamenco distracts from the lack of depth. Ainadamar, by Osvaldo Golijov, opens with a flamenco dancer leaping onto a...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scottish Opera, at Theatre Royal Glasgow)
Do you ever take a nap in the middle of the afternoon without setting an alarm? You don’t know when you will wake up, you don’t know what...