Flora Gosling
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Review: Ugly Sisters (Underbelly)
There is a show about a celebrity turned radical feminist transphobe that has been grabbing headlines since well before the festival started
Flora Gosling
- Aug 9
- 2 min
Review: OWEaDEBT (Summerhall)
Feathered fun with a crazy swan: You probably know that Swan Lake is a story that can be told in many different ways. Some versions have...
Flora Gosling
- Jul 2
- 3 min
Review: Hedda Gabler (Bard in the Botanics)
Nicole Cooper shines as Hedda: Nothing proves a point about women’s “infinite variety” like opening your season with Jane Eyre and...
Flora Gosling
- May 20
- 3 min
Review: Dead Girls Rising (Tron Theatre)
Toxic healing, girls?: It is a curse of feminist theatre that it can never really solve the problems it raises. That is true of any art...
Flora Gosling
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Review: Maria (The Old Hairdressers)
Mary Magdalene reintroduced, but not revived: Thought you know_____? Well, think again! Perhaps it is a trope that theatre makers like to...
Flora Gosling
- Sep 30, 2023
- 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...