

Flora Gosling
- Sep 30
- 3 min
Review: HIGH STEAKS (Summerhall)
ELOINA gets to the meat of labiaplasty: It's rare to find a show that feels like it is at the beginning of a conversation. Even the...


Flora Gosling
- Aug 17
- 2 min
Review: Concerned Others (Summerhall)
A tiny window into a very big problem: There are a lot of shows that inspire compassion for a person with a drug problem, but not many...


Flora Gosling
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Review: 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals (Pleasance Courtyard)
Verbatim theatre with bold confessions and bodily fluids: Nothing sets the tone like some hot pink tarpaulin taped to the floor. It...


Flora Gosling
- Aug 7
- 2 min
Review: Temporarily Yours (Underbelly Bristo Square)
The stock characters and the standouts in Greta Zamparini’s solo performance: Sex work is a topic that, in theatre, feels like a...


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...