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 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
- Aug 8, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Invisible Mending (Summerhall)
There are many ways to memorialise someone after they pass. You can plant a tree, build a bench, scatter ashes, or, as this year's Fringe...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Seen 00:25 (C Aquila)
A dark but disjointed multimedia performance about anorexia and the internet
Social media, especially content consumed by young people...
Flora Gosling
- Aug 6, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Breathless (Pleasance Courtyard)
A solo play from Laura Horton about becoming buried beneath beautiful clothes. It shouldn’t have to be said, but Obsessive Compulsive...
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...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Burnt Out (Assembly Roxy)
It's funny how little focus is put on the consequences of climate change. In theatre, and the wider discussion of the climate crisis...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Dreamworld (Previously Zumba Gold) (Pleasance Courtyard)
There are various professions that require you to put on a performance; teaching, customer service, and, apparently, being a Zumba...
Flora Gosling
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
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...