“How do I mentor a playwright when every time I write a play I feel like I’m starting from scratch?” Tim Crouch on joining the growing band of mentors and dramaturgs who hold up a mirror to the playwriting process.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
3 October 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Ellen McDougall: “It’s absolutely important that we don’t limit people”
By Alice Saville
The new artistic director of The Gate talks about running a theatre, looking to Europe, and why a narrow discourse around diversity can be dangerous.
25 September 2017
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Ink at Duke of York’s Theatre
By Alice Saville
A loving portrait of an unlovable industry: James Graham’s play about The Sun’s founding days transfers to the West End.
12 September 2017
Features
Fighting the Myth of the Tipping Point
By Alice Saville
This week, there’s an outpouring of new work on trans experiences. But with the same people in charge, is change really in the air?
7 September 2017
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Follies at the National Theatre
By Alice Saville
Shadowy and taut: Alice Saville reviews Dominic Cooke’s magical revival of Sondheim’s classic musical.
4 September 2017
Features
After the Fringe is Over
By Alice Saville
A week after the end of the Edinburgh Fringe, Alice Saville trudges through its debris to explore what the festival leaves behind.
23 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Heather at Summerhall
By Alice Saville
A Rowling riff: Thomas Eccleshare’s play is a problematic story of an author who’s not all she seems.
23 August 2017
Features
Exeunt Recommends: Week Three
By Alice Saville
As the feverish final days of the Edinburgh Fringe approach, here’s Exeunt’s writers on what you should see.
20 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Celebration at ZOO venues
By Alice Saville
Let’s celebrate: the debut show from Emergency Chorus is a gawky, joyful evocation of the present moment.
20 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Scene at St Augustines
By Alice Saville
A metatheatrical unpicking of race and queerness: Eve Allin on an “intimidatingly clever” love story.
14 August 2017
Features
Exeunt Recommends: Week One
By Alice Saville
As the dust settles after Edinburgh Fringe’s first week, here’s what Exeunt’s writers have seen and loved.
12 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Batacchio at ZOO
By Alice Saville
Circus as Angela Carter imagined it: a dazzling evocation of Victorian entertainments.
10 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Black Catfish Musketeer at Summerhall
By Alice Saville
Suitable for lactose intolerances: Dylan Coburn Gray’s new romcom about online dating is sharp, satisfying and utterly cheese free.
6 July 2017
Features
Why LGBT Theatre Needs to Start Telling New Stories
By Alice Saville
As LGBT Pride approaches, Alice Saville asks why London’s glut of queer theatre is looking to the past, not the future.
19 June 2017
Features
Farewell (for now) Forest Fringe
By Alice Saville
Following Forest Fringe’s announcement that they will no longer be running their free Edinburgh Fringe venue, Alice Saville remembers the invaluable spaces they created.