Flesh – ZOO Southside ★★★★

Grief rarely arrives as a single emotion. More often it comes in fragments, flashes and recurring images that surface without warning. Like objects washed ashore after a storm, memories appear unexpectedly, demand attention and then disappear beneath the tide once more. Still Life’s remarkable Flesh understands that instinctively. Created by Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola, Flesh unfolds across four modern fables exploring mortality, loss and human connection. Beginning in recognisably naturalistic territory before steadily drifting into something stranger, the production feels like watching reality dissolve at the edges. What starts as everyday life gradually acquires the unstable logic of memory, where emotion matters more than chronology and images linger longer than facts. Yet for all its engagement with grief, death and human fragility, Flesh is frequently very funny. Still Life understand that sorrow and comedy are rarely far apart. Funerals, hospitals and family gatherings…