Flora Gosling
Aug 302 min read
Review: Please Right Back (The Studio Edinburgh)
Bright imaginations in a bleak world
A common question about family theatre is what differentiates it from children’s theatre. It is a...
Flora Gosling
Aug 202 min read
Review: How I Learned to Swim (Summerhall)
Sorrowful solo performance stays in the shallows
If this were just a show about learning to swim at the age of thirty, that would be...
Flora Gosling
Aug 192 min read
Review: Out of Woodstock (Underbelly Cowgate)
Mud-splattered mayhem and misogyny
Edinburgh locals like to complain about the Fringe and the chaos it brings to the city, but of all...
Flora Gosling
Aug 132 min read
Review: Chokeslam (Assembly George Square)
A love of wrestling and a wrestle with love: The lights go down, the iconic “Undertaker” theme begins to chime, and around thirty...
Flora Gosling
Aug 82 min read
Review: Instructions (Summerhall)
Celebration of liveness shoots itself in the foot: “Dance, monkey, dance!” Most performances disguise the more humiliating parts of being...
Flora Gosling
Aug 72 min read
Review: The Book of Mountains and Seas (Pleasance Courtyard)
Yilong Liu’s emotional play about food, family, and Yelp: Customer review writing doesn’t get enough love. These are people who take time...
Flora Gosling
Aug 72 min read
Review: Polishing Shakespeare (Assembly Rooms)
Brian Dykstra’s axe-grinding defence of Shakespeare is unshakably stiff: Who amongst us can say they didn’t use “No-Fear Shakespeare”...
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 32 min read
Review: The Shroud Maker (Pleasance Dome)
Tragically woven tale of life in Palestine: An elderly woman rises from her sewing machine, answers a ringing telephone, sighs and...
Flora Gosling
Aug 32 min read
Review: Forked (Summerhall)
An Identity Crisis in Notting Hill: If you grew up in the UK, you are probably tired of certain narrow perceptions of British culture...