

Flora Gosling
Sep 9, 20242 min read
Review: A Jaffa Cake Musical (Pleasance Courtyard)
A jelly-filled musical treat. There’s a time and a place for a silly musical – in the afternoon at the Fringe. Light-hearted musicals are...


Flora Gosling
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Review: Please Right Back (The Studio Edinburgh)
Bright imaginations in a bleak world
A common question about family theatre is what differentiates it from children’s theatre. It is a...

Flora Gosling
Aug 26, 20242 min read
Review: Burning Down the Horse (Pleasance Dome)
A sandal-clad power struggle
Usually, a critic aims to be a fly on the wall, to blend into the crowd and let the performance unfold before


Flora Gosling
Aug 20, 20242 min read
Review: How I Learned to Swim (Summerhall)
Sorrowful solo performance stays in the shallows
If this were just a show about learning to swim at the age of thirty, that would be...

Flora Gosling
Aug 19, 20242 min read
Review: Out of Woodstock (Underbelly Cowgate)
Mud-splattered mayhem and misogyny
Edinburgh locals like to complain about the Fringe and the chaos it brings to the city, but of all...