Flora Gosling
Aug 183 min read
Review: FAMEHUNGRY (Summerhall)
Raving hamsters, fortune tellers, video-gaming grandmothers, cosplayers, factory workers, calligraphers, aggressive pro-lifers, and a man...
Flora Gosling
Aug 52 min read
Review: Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story (Greenside @ George Street)
True survival story from below deck: When we think about the Titanic, we often think about wealth and grandeur. How much it cost to make...
Flora Gosling
Aug 42 min read
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
Mar 283 min read
Review: An Accident/A Life (Tramway)
A life story without a lesson to learn: When you are at school and one of your classmates has an accident, it is a childhood milestone...
Flora Gosling
Sep 30, 20233 min read
Review: HIGH STEAKS (Summerhall)
ELOINA gets to the meat of labiaplasty: It's rare to find a show that feels like it is at the beginning of a conversation. Even the...
Flora Gosling
Aug 17, 20232 min read
Review: Concerned Others (Summerhall)
A tiny window into a very big problem: There are a lot of shows that inspire compassion for a person with a drug problem, but not many...
Flora Gosling
Aug 9, 20233 min read
Review: 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals (Pleasance Courtyard)
Verbatim theatre with bold confessions and bodily fluids: Nothing sets the tone like some hot pink tarpaulin taped to the floor. It...
Flora Gosling
Aug 7, 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
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.) by Mamoru Iriguchi (Summerhall)
Most of our sex education at school that was, at best, flimsy. What our fourteen-year-old selves were told to expect about the sexes,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Screen 9 (Pleasance at the EICC)
Learning about the Batman Shootings of 2012 is upsetting in two ways. The first is learning how many people were killed and injured doing...