Tasmania’s triumphantly weird arts festival lures in audiences with magic, sweat and glitter.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
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.
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.