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 25, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Poles: The Science of Magnetic Attraction (Pleasance Courtyard)
High heels and heavy hearts in Amelia Pitcher’s One Woman Show. This is a title that needs a photo to accompany it. Poles: The Science...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 20, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Angel-Monster (Assembly Checkpoint)
There are many performances this Fringe that boast they can transport audiences to some strange, otherworldly place, but few can pull it...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 20, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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 14, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
Review: The Tempest (Tron Theatre)
Like being stranded on Prospero’s island, watching a performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest can feel like being wrapped up in a strange...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Skank (Pleasance Courtyard)
Skank introduces us to Kate; a woman on the brink of crisis who uses sex and self-deprecating humour and sex to distract herself from her...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her) (Pleasance at the EICC)
We’ve all imagined chance encounters with people we have an urge to confront. We imagine in the shower, in the car, before we go to sleep...