Ava Wong Davies writes on a production that’s strong in hotness, but lacking in menace.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
19 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Small Place at the Gate Theatre
8th November - 1st December
By Ava Wong Davies
‘A spider’s web of complicity and guilt’: Ava Wong Davies writes about Anna Himali Howard’s theatrical investigation of the impact of colonialism on Antigua
9 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Hoes at Hampstead Theatre
26th October - 1st December
By Ava Wong Davies
‘Simultaneously radical and commonplace’: Ifeyinwa Frederick’s debut play captures the joyous thorniness of female friendship, writes Ava Wong Davies
5 November 2018
Features • Ipswich • Performance
SPILL Festival 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
A mushrooming community: Ava Wong Davies writes on the intimacy and kindness of the works at this year’s instalment of performance art fest SPILL.
29 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Memorial at the Barbican
Until 30 September 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
The common soldiers, the everyday heroes: Ava Davies reviews Alice Oswald’s elegy to the dead of the Iliad.
9 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Humans at Hampstead Theatre
Until 13 October 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
The awkwardness of family dinners: Ava Davies reviews Stephen Karam’s Thanksgiving play.
13 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Review: (even) Hotter at Bedlam
Until 27 August 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
Warmly chaotic: Ava Davies reviews Ell Potter and Mary Higgins’ show about bodies.
12 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh review: Blackthorn at Paines Plough Roundabout
Until 26th August
By Ava Wong Davies
Intensely emotional: Charley Miles’ debut play is a love story set in a Yorkshire village.
11 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Review: No One is Coming to Save You at Pleasance Courtyard
Until 27th August 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
‘A rush of catastrophic thinking moving in slow motion’: Ava Davies on a reality-distorting two-hander.
11 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh fringe review: It’s Alright, Everything’s Okay at ZOO
Until 27th August
By Ava Wong Davies
Millennial despair: Anorak’s debut show is soaked in anxiety.
9 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Review: Signals at Pleasance Courtyard
Until 27th August 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
‘Like Beckett, if Beckett didn’t piss me off’: Ava Davies on Footprint Theatre’s gently radical two-hander about loneliness and the cosmos.
8 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh review: The Welcome Revolution at Zoo Southside
By Ava Wong Davies
A very specific idea of Britishness: Ava Davies writes on a show that meets injustice with sugar-coated tweeness.
7 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Review: Come to Daddy at Summerhall
Until 12th August 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
Inheritance, rejection, stasis: Ava Davies reviews Living House Theatre’s playful take on art and history.
5 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh review: dressed. at Underbelly
By Ava Wong Davies
Deep and rich and jagged: Ava Davies on ThisEgg’s fluid exploration of bodies and trauma.
4 August 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Review: Duckie at Summerhall
Until 12 August 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
‘Glitters with warmth’: Ava Davies reviews Le Gateau Chocolat’s cabaret version of The Ugly Duckling.