Flora Gosling
Jun 112 min read
Review: The Last Pearl (Tron Theatre)
Strings, stilts, and sea in Irish puppetry performance: There is an ocean between the kind of shows that are performed in theatres...
Flora Gosling
Aug 5, 20234 min read
Reviews: Without Sin and An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World (Summerhall)
One will make you feel tall, the other will make you feel small: Summerhall appears to be collecting semi-theatrical experiences the way...
Flora Gosling
May 16, 20232 min read
Review: Too Close to the Sun (Platform Glasgow)
Barrowland Ballet dance around the topic of climate change:
It’s not as easy to talk about climate change with children. It used to be ...
Flora Gosling
Sep 1, 20222 min read
Review: You're Safe Til 2024: Deep History (Pleasance Courtyard)
Lessons from deep time, and why we shouldn’t listen to them - Something you may not know about me is that a few years ago I had the job...
Flora Gosling
Aug 15, 20223 min read
Review: Swell (Underbelly Cowgate)
It is hard to give examples of the scale of the climate crisis that will get through to British people. A summer that is a bit hotter...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
Review: You're Safe 'Til 2024 (Pleasance Courtyard)
How do you make a show about the environment? In the case of most performances, angrily, pessimistically and equipped with instructions...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20221 min read
Review: Are we not drawn onward to new erA? (Zoo Southside)
Take a close look at that title. Notice anything about it? Are we not drawn onward to new erA?, much like its namesake, is a palindrome....
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20221 min read
Review: Evaluation (The Greenhouse)
Understandably, the environmental crisis is a focal point of more Fringe shows than ever. But, as with previous years, a lot of companies...