Float, Other Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House Review
Written by Kerry McLaughlin for Theatre & Tonic
This was a very last-minute ticket purchase. My friend and I had just seen Earnest, and she was up for another show. I took the plunge and booked this show as I felt it was a more unique fringe experience.
Float’s themes of pregnancy and loss aren’t heavily relied on in the opening, instead using space, NASA, astronauts, and the mission as code words. The one-woman nature of the show adds to the piece. Unlike others of its kind, it doesn’t employ the actor as a multitude of characters but instead just herself. That’s what struck me about this show the most: there’s so much heart and soul in it. If you tried putting it all into one of the cardboard boxes on stage, it would ooze out of every space it could. The show pulls you in from the get-go, knowing full well where it’s going, whilst still keeping a confetti’s worth of light-hearted moments and jokes.
Float plays at Other Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 25 August
★ ★ ★ ★
