As the crowds trickle back into central London, Ava Wong Davies embarks on two headphone-led encounters with the city.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
18 July 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux review: Lungs at Old Vic
By Ava Wong Davies
Interlinked anxieties: Ava Wong Davies writes on Duncan Macmillan’s climate drama in its 2019 revival and its 2020 split screen livestream.
20 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews
Imaginary Review: for what we were promised
By Ava Wong Davies
“Images cling like smoke on a sleeve”: Ava Wong Davies pictures a visually striking Edinburgh fringe show, as part of the Imaginary Reviews series.
18 March 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Seven Streams of the River Ota at National Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
A starting gun: Ava Wong Davies on Robert LePage’s epic but flattening narrative of suffering and resilience.
4 March 2020
Reviews
Review: The Mikvah Project at Orange Tree Theatre
28th February - 28th March
By Ava Wong Davies
Sinking in: Ava Wong Davies writes on Georgia Green’s production of Josh Azouz’s ‘tender, exposing’ play, which explores an unfolding relationship through a religious ritual.
11 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Bee in Me at Unicorn Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
Come fly with me: Ava Wong-Daves and her 11-year-old niece team up to review Roland Schimmelpfennig’s insect-based show.
1 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Sugar Syndrome at Orange Tree Theatre
24th January - 22nd February
By Ava Wong Davies
‘A sugary surface with an achingly bitter aftertaste’: Ava Wong Davies writes on Oscar Toeman’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s play about chatrooms and an unlikely friendship.
24 January 2020
Reviews
Review: The Welkin at National Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
“That belly-deep, broiling sense of want”: Ava Wong-Davies writes on Lucy Kirkwood’s intensely bodily exploration of womanhood, repression and hunger.
19 December 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Snowflake at Kiln Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
“Yes, it’s a Brexit play”: Ava Wong Davies writes on the warm-hearted bluntness of Mike Bartlett’s story of intergenerational conflict.
17 December 2019
Reviews
Review: Three Sisters at National Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
On a cliff edge: Ava Wong Davies writes on a powerful new setting for Inua Ellam’s play.
11 December 2019
Reviews
Review: Cyrano de Bergerac at Playhouse Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
“Sex? Indubitably! Violence? No doubt!”: Ava Wong Davies writes a rhyming review of Jamie Lloyd’s souped up verse drama.
26 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Bridge Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
A glorious vision: Ava Wong Davies writes on the wintry magic of Sally Cookson’s Narnia story.
4 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: High Fidelity at The Turbine Theatre
21st October - 7th December
By Ava Wong Davies
‘The plot has aged like milk’: Ava Wong Davies creates a mixtape review in response to the musical adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel about an ‘insufferable music snob’.
24 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Vassa at Almeida Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
A bloodless revolution: Ava Wong Davies writes on Mike Bartlett and Tinuke Craig’s underpowered take on Gorky’s political satire.
23 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Little Baby Jesus at Orange Tree Theatre
18 October - 16 November
By Ava Wong Davies
Ava Wong Davies writes on Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s production of Arinzé Kene’s play about teenagers on the cusp of adulthood, which ‘fizzes and froths like a half-drunk bottle of Coke’.