

Review: How Can I Help You (Pleasance Courtyard)
Likeable bloke plays guitar at audience instead of getting a diary: What does it take to turn a seemingly ordinary life story into a...
Flora Gosling
Aug 4, 20242 min read


Review: The Shroud Maker (Pleasance Dome)
Tragically woven tale of life in Palestine: An elderly woman rises from her sewing machine, answers a ringing telephone, sighs and...
Flora Gosling
Aug 3, 20242 min read


Review: Forked (Summerhall)
An Identity Crisis in Notting Hill: If you grew up in the UK, you are probably tired of certain narrow perceptions of British culture...
Flora Gosling
Aug 3, 20242 min read


Review: Pain and I (Summerhall)
Sarah Hopfinger dances with a lifelong companion: At the start of Sarah Hopfinger’s autobiographical dance theatre performance Pain and I...
Flora Gosling
Mar 25, 20242 min read


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
Feb 27, 20242 min read


Review: Dear Daddy Who Art in Heaven (The Old Hairdressers)
Comedy that reconciles the gay and the godly: If God made man in his own image, then perhaps his voice mimics each person he speaks to?...
Flora Gosling
Oct 4, 20232 min read


Review: AFTER ALL (Assembly @ Dance Base)
A show about death that is as silly as it is sombre: The Edinburgh Fringe is full of multidisciplined over-promisers. Often when...
Flora Gosling
Sep 8, 20233 min read


Review: Habitat (Assembly @ Dance Base)
Creature discomforts as a hermit crab struggle to find a home: We have quite a cutesy perception of hermit crabs and how they move...
Flora Gosling
Aug 23, 20232 min read


Review: Unstitching (TheSpace @ Niddry Street)
Crafted chaos inspired by everyone’s favourite international song competition: For theatre kids, talking about Eurovision during...
Flora Gosling
Aug 19, 20232 min read


Review: Did You Eat? (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)
A recipe for love handed down for generations: The idea of “love languages” seems to come in and out of fashion. Whenever someone eagerly...
Flora Gosling
Aug 19, 20232 min read



