Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Styx (Assembly George Square)
In Second Body’s theatre-concert Styx, we are told that when we recall an event we are actually remembering the last time we remembered...
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
Sound Cistem (Zoo Playground)
Physical theatre has an amazing ability to communicate messages through the bodies of performers. Plaster Cast Theatre’s Sound Cistem...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Touching the Void (The Lyceum)
Joe Simpson’s incredible survival from a mountaineering accident on Peruvian mountain Siula Grande has been turned into a best-selling...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Beerey (Cavern Club)
Trying to take a story from around 2010-2011, and make it relevant enough to inspire action today, is a challenge for any piece of...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Pardon Me Alan Turing (BATS Theatre)
Taking historic figures and working them into a fictional story is usually worked to educate about their lives, or to entertain by...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: The Contours of Heaven (TAPAC)
Theatre made about and for a specific area are always a labour of love. They are made in a debt to its setting to represent it accurately...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Expensive Shit (The Lemon Tree)
Well, you gotta appreciate a show that gives you the opportunity to say “Shit” loudly in a bar after your grandmother doesn’t hear you...