Alice Saville, Author at Exeunt Magazine

20 January 2020

Features

A Festival of Brexit

By Alice Saville

As plans are taking shape for 2022’s £120m post-Brexit arts extravaganza, here are some more outward-looking ways to mark Britain’s exit from the EU.

27 November 2019

Features

Exeunt Recommends: December 2019

By Alice Saville

Oh no, this list doesn’t include any pantos – but there are plenty of other wintry delights in Exeunt’s UK-wide tips on what to see this December.

18 November 2019

Features

How do theatre critics become experts?

By Alice Saville

Alice Saville writes on how ideas of expertise are used to define who gets to have an opinion on theatre.

6 November 2019

Reviews • West End & Central

Review: The Antipodes at National Theatre

By Alice Saville

Endless spirals: Alice Saville writes on the looping, time-bending world of Annie Baker’s interrogation of storytelling.

29 October 2019

Features

Meteor Festival, Bergen

By Alice Saville

A lovesong in the dark: Alice Saville writes on the mystical magic of Norway’s biannual performance festival.

16 October 2019

Features

Metatheatricality as a Feminist Act

By Alice Saville

Sorry not sorry: Alice Saville writes on a spate of female playwrights who are breaking form and pulling back the curtain on gendered power structures.

15 October 2019

Reviews • West End & Central

Review: A History of Water in the Middle East at Royal Court

By Alice Saville

Drip, drip, drip: Alice Saville writes on Sabrina Mahfouz’s slow-building deluge of a show.

4 October 2019

Features

Exeunt recommends: October 2019

By Alice Saville

A guide to October’s chaotic flurry of performance, dance, and theatre.

3 October 2019

Reviews

Review: The Watsons at Menier Chocolate Factory

By Alice Saville

“A meta review of a metatheatrical play? Are you quite sure that’s wise?” Alice Saville writes an Austen-inspired response to Laura Wade’s Regency romp.

23 September 2019

Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Preludes at Southwark Playhouse

By Alice Saville

Emotive notes: Alice Saville responds to Dave Malloy’s passionate symphonic musical with a review in four movements.

18 September 2019

Features • Essays

Ticket prices keep rising; why aren’t we rioting?

By Alice Saville

Alice Saville writes on 1809’s Old Price Riots, and what they can teach commercial theatre producers over two centuries later.

29 August 2019

Reviews • West End & Central

Review: Fleabag at Wyndham’s Theatre

By Alice Saville

“You don’t need me to tell you about Fleabag”: Alice Saville writes on a theatrical homecoming for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s much-loved feminist antihero.