

Review: Scent (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)
Top notes of talent but cliché leaves the performance feeling corked: There’s a particular scene in 2020’s Netflix sensation...
Flora Gosling
Aug 9, 20232 min read


Review: Temporarily Yours (Underbelly Bristo Square)
The stock characters and the standouts in Greta Zamparini’s solo performance: Sex work is a topic that, in theatre, feels like a...
Flora Gosling
Aug 8, 20232 min read


Review: Chicken (Summerhall)
The perils of fame as told by a fabulously feathered storyteller: Often at the fringe, a kooky concept can be a red flag: the sign of...
Flora Gosling
Aug 3, 20232 min read


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 25, 20222 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: 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 8, 20223 min read


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 7, 20222 min read


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
Aug 6, 20222 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



