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?
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
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.
16 June 2017
Features
Slow Theatre
By Alice Saville
Amy Draper’s ‘These Trees are Made of Blood’ took years to move from initial seed of an idea to a full production. Here, she writes on why ideas need time to germinate.
6 June 2017
Features
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: “No one is really challenged to think bigger”
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville chats to the writer of ‘An Octoroon’ about New York’s alt-theatre scene, reimagining historical plays, and the “weird echo chamber” of theatre criticism.
5 June 2017
Features
Let’s put a one-year ban on staging Shakespeare
By Alice Saville
Ifeyinwa Frederick writes on why the theatre industry needs a break from its centuries-long love affair with all things Shakespeare.