

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 20, 20223 min read


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 16, 20222 min read


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 14, 20223 min read


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
Aug 12, 20223 min read


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, 20224 min read


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, 20222 min read


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...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read


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: We Want You to Watch (theSpace on Niddry Street)
Voyeurism is a difficult topic to challenge through theatre; you can't criticise people taking enjoyment by looking at sexual images,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read


Review: dressed. (Tron Theatre)
Now that we are in something of an aftermath of the #MeToo movement, it seems like interest has ebbed a bit, but I think we can all agree...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read



