

Review: Mediocre White Male (Assembly Roxy)
Often in monologues, we learn more about a character the less we hear the actual details of their life. The more you avoid discussing the...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 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


Review: Granny Smith (French Institute in Scotland)
For anyone who studies theatre, or takes an academic interest at least, almost all performances are an opportunity to learn. Sometimes...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read


Review: Daddy Drag (Tron Glasgow)
If you look at the marketing for Daddy Drag, you will see a dapper-looking gentlelady in a tuxedo, with slicked-back hair, a neat stubble...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Evaluation (The Greenhouse)
Understandably, the environmental crisis is a focal point of more Fringe shows than ever. But, as with previous years, a lot of companies...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20221 min read


Review: Romeo and Juliet - One-Man Musical (TheSpace at Surgeon's Hall)
This year there are (at least) five productions of Romeo and Juliet at the fringe. When a show is trying to trying to add a little more...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Baby Face (Tron Theatre)
For those who have seen it, it is difficult to watch “Baby Face” and not be reminded of a certain 70s TV advert for “Love’s Baby Soft”,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Phone Whore (BATS Theatre)
With any piece of theatre about sex, or in any way related to sex, the ever-present question is "how graphic?" or "how kinky?" it will...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Girl You Want (BATS Theatre)
"Girl You Want", by Tess Mitchell, is intended to be an embodiment of her youth. Semi-autobiographical and not following any strict...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: Poet Vs Pageant (BATS Theatre)
Trying to enchant an audience with a story on the back of wit and rhyme, is a style and a performance type not done enough in this time....
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read