(Un)sexy times: Alice Saville writes on a blunt exploration of female arousal.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
10 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Fulfilment by SharkLegs
By Alice Saville
Boxed in: Alice Saville writes on a disconcerting, robot-led dive into Amazon’s fulfilment policies.
8 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Art Heist by Poltergeist Theatre
By Alice Saville
Young masters: Poltergeist Theatre’s performance is an entertaining rampage through an art gallery.
8 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The Patient Gloria at Traverse Theatre
By Alice Saville
Feminist joy: Alice Saville writes on Gina Moxley’s intergenerational exploration of female desire.
8 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Miss AmeriKa by Spitfire Company
By Alice Saville
Worm in the big apple: Alice Saville writes on Mirenka Cechova’s rapped performance about life as an immigrant in New York city.
7 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Tricky Second Album by In Bed With My Brother
By Alice Saville
Night sweats: In Bed With My Brother’s exhilarating show mixes rave energy with political fury.
6 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: All of Me by Caroline Horton
By Alice Saville
Sorry, not sorry: Alice Saville writes on Caroline Horton’s unapologetically, triumphantly bleak narrative of depression and death.
2 August 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Tree at Manchester International Festival
By Alice Saville
Star power: Alice Saville writes on Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s South Africa-set immersive show.
31 July 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The View UpStairs at Soho Theatre
By Alice Saville
Beyond nostalgia: Alice Saville writes on a nuanced musical about a lost 1973 gay bar.
24 July 2019
Features
A Helter Skelter Ride Through Latitude
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville sorts the (pink) sheep from the GOATs in her write-up of 2019’s frenetic Latitude festival.
19 July 2019
Reviews
Review: The Nico Project at Manchester International Festival
By Alice Saville
Frozen Warnings: Alice Saville writes on Maxine Peake’s shiver-inducing performance as Nico.
16 July 2019
Features
Encounters With Reykjavik Fringe
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville discovers a fringe arts explosion at Iceland’s new festival of grassroots performance.
13 July 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Peter Gynt at National Theatre
By Alice Saville
Pig-nosed whimsy: Alice Saville writes a poem in response to Hare’s firmly unpoetic rewrite of Ibsen’s verse drama.
20 June 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Bitter Wheat at Garrick Theatre
7th June - 21st September
By Alice Saville
A bitter draft: Alice Saville reluctantly reviews David Mamet’s Weinstein play.
12 June 2019
Features • Essays
Do trigger warnings ruin theatre’s power to surprise?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on theatre’s uneasy relationship with trigger warnings, and the faultlines they reveal.