Flora Gosling
Aug 14, 20223 min read
Review: The Beatles Were A Boyband (Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose)
To make a show about women’s safety in 2022, you must also make a show about the ways that women deal with it. In F-Bomb Theatre’s...
Flora Gosling
Aug 12, 20223 min read
Review: Take It Away, Cheryl (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)
The “hooker with a heart of gold” trope has been around for centuries. She is there to offer sage advice, become the object of the main...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20224 min read
Review: The Tempest (Tron Theatre)
Like being stranded on Prospero’s island, watching a performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest can feel like being wrapped up in a strange...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Skank (Pleasance Courtyard)
Skank introduces us to Kate; a woman on the brink of crisis who uses sex and self-deprecating humour and sex to distract herself from her...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her) (Pleasance at the EICC)
We’ve all imagined chance encounters with people we have an urge to confront. We imagine in the shower, in the car, before we go to sleep...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Mediocre White Male (Assembly Roxy)
Often in monologues, we learn more about a character the less we hear the actual details of their life. The more you avoid discussing the...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: We Want You to Watch (theSpace on Niddry Street)
Voyeurism is a difficult topic to challenge through theatre; you can't criticise people taking enjoyment by looking at sexual images,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: dressed. (Tron Theatre)
Now that we are in something of an aftermath of the #MeToo movement, it seems like interest has ebbed a bit, but I think we can all agree...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20222 min read
Review: Baby Face (Tron Theatre)
For those who have seen it, it is difficult to watch “Baby Face” and not be reminded of a certain 70s TV advert for “Love’s Baby Soft”,...
Flora Gosling
May 4, 20223 min read
Review: Seed (BATS Theatre)
With New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern currently on maternity leave, becoming the first elected leader ever to do so, this...