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.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
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.
14 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Ejaculation by Essi Rossi and Sarah Kivi
By Alice Saville
(Un)sexy times: Alice Saville writes on a blunt exploration of female arousal.
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.