As the theatre calendar goes into overdrive, Alice Saville writes on the time-and-space challenges of trying, and failing, to see everything.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
4 June 2018
Reviews
Review: The Rink at Southwark Playhouse
25th May to 23rd June
By Alice Saville
Hall of amusements: set in a decaying seaside resort, this rarely staged Kander and Ebb musical has a warm mother-daughter bond at its heart.
22 May 2018
Reviews • Norwich
Review: The Paper Man at Norfolk and Norwich Festival
By Alice Saville
A beautiful game: Improbable’s devised show mixes football and feminism, in a tribute to the power of teamwork.
8 May 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Grotty at The Bunker Theatre
1st-26th May
By Alice Saville
Clam jam: Izzy Tennyson’s play is a grimy, intriguing look at Dalston’s lesbian party scene.
2 May 2018
Features
No More Heroes
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville considers questions of reputation and legacy in an industry that’s in love with its own history.
30 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Absolute Hell at the National Theatre
Until 16th June
By Alice Saville
The inadequacy of language: Alice Saville on Rodney Ackland’s sprawling epic of post-war London nightlife.
17 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Chicago at Phoenix Theatre
By Alice Saville
He had it coming: Alice Saville’s review of the sexy, slick courtroom story takes the form of a trial transcript.
11 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Brief Encounter at Empire Cinema
Until 2nd September
By Alice Saville
The billow of smoke: Emma Rice’s reimagining of the classic is gorgeously, but narrowly, romantic.
5 April 2018
Features
Ellie Dubois: “Circus is a device in the toolkit I use to make a show”
By Alice Saville
Ellie Dubois’s shows blur the line between circus and live art. She talks pushing at the limits, gender, and why circus needs more criticism.
11 March 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Summer and Smoke at Almeida Theatre
By Alice Saville
A vindication of female oddness: Patsy Ferran stars in Tennessee William’s painful study of anxiety, passion and loneliness.
11 March 2018
Reviews
Review: The Year of the Rooster Monk at Vault Festival
By Alice Saville
Giselle LeBleu’s spooky, multilayered storytelling show really is perfect for Mother’s Day.
6 March 2018
Features
Boycotting Work by Unpaid Creatives Isn’t the Answer
By Alice Saville
Some thoughts on work and exploitation, following Mark Shenton’s statement that he’ll no longer go to shows made by unpaid creatives.
28 February 2018
Features
Being an Artist, post-Brexit
By Alice Saville
“Brexit has sent a subconscious ‘exodus call’.” – European company Little Soldier talk leaving, uncertainty and the impact of the ‘yes’ vote.
27 February 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Bryony Lavery: “Anger is one of the things that fuels me wonderfully.”
By Alice Saville
The author of ‘Frozen’ and a new adaptation of ‘Brighton Rock’ talks female anger, reimagining romantic fiction, and the banality of murder.
12 February 2018
Features
LGBT History Month – a chance for theatre to reinvent its queer past
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on how theatre offers a way to put the past in dialogue with the present.