

Flora Gosling
Aug 18, 20242 min read
Review: Ugly Sisters (Underbelly)
There is a show about a celebrity turned radical feminist transphobe that has been grabbing headlines since well before the festival started


Flora Gosling
Aug 9, 20242 min read
Review: OWEaDEBT (Summerhall)
Feathered fun with a crazy swan: You probably know that Swan Lake is a story that can be told in many different ways. Some versions have...


Flora Gosling
Jul 2, 20243 min read
Review: Hedda Gabler (Bard in the Botanics)
Nicole Cooper shines as Hedda: Nothing proves a point about women’s “infinite variety” like opening your season with Jane Eyre and...


Flora Gosling
May 20, 20243 min read
Review: Dead Girls Rising (Tron Theatre)
Toxic healing, girls?: It is a curse of feminist theatre that it can never really solve the problems it raises. That is true of any art...


Flora Gosling
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Review: Maria (The Old Hairdressers)
Mary Magdalene reintroduced, but not revived: Thought you know_____? Well, think again! Perhaps it is a trope that theatre makers like to...


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 25, 20222 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 20, 20222 min read
Review: Angel-Monster (Assembly Checkpoint)
There are many performances this Fringe that boast they can transport audiences to some strange, otherworldly place, but few can pull it...


Flora Gosling
Aug 20, 20223 min read
Review: She/Her (Assembly George Square Studios)
This is a show about womanhood, telling women’s stories, with a title based on traditionally female pronouns. So why is the name floating...


Flora Gosling
Aug 16, 20222 min read
Review: Godot is a Woman (Pleasance Dome)
We have waited a long time for an all-female adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It has been nearly seventy years, and...