Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.) by Mamoru Iriguchi (Summerhall)
Most of our sex education at school that was, at best, flimsy. What our fourteen-year-old selves were told to expect about the sexes,...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Screen 9 (Pleasance at the EICC)
Learning about the Batman Shootings of 2012 is upsetting in two ways. The first is learning how many people were killed and injured doing...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Styx (Assembly George Square)
In Second Body’s theatre-concert Styx, we are told that when we recall an event we are actually remembering the last time we remembered...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: You're Safe 'Til 2024 (Pleasance Courtyard)
How do you make a show about the environment? In the case of most performances, angrily, pessimistically and equipped with instructions...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Touching the Void (The Lyceum)
Joe Simpson’s incredible survival from a mountaineering accident on Peruvian mountain Siula Grande has been turned into a best-selling...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Beerey (Cavern Club)
Trying to take a story from around 2010-2011, and make it relevant enough to inspire action today, is a challenge for any piece of...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Pardon Me Alan Turing (BATS Theatre)
Taking historic figures and working them into a fictional story is usually worked to educate about their lives, or to entertain by...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: The Contours of Heaven (TAPAC)
Theatre made about and for a specific area are always a labour of love. They are made in a debt to its setting to represent it accurately...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Expensive Shit (The Lemon Tree)
Well, you gotta appreciate a show that gives you the opportunity to say “Shit” loudly in a bar after your grandmother doesn’t hear you...