“Life gets in the way”: Ava Wong Davies reviews an intimate, constantly interrupted, week-long succession of texts and videos from Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
12 November 2020
Reviews
Review: Tabletop Shakespeare by Forced Entertainment (online)
By Ava Wong Davies
Kitchen-sink drama: Ava Wong Davies reviews Forced Entertainment’s domestic, unexpectedly moving retellings of Shakespeare’s plays.
14 September 2020
Features
Rediscovering London, with headphones
By Ava Wong Davies
As the crowds trickle back into central London, Ava Wong Davies embarks on two headphone-led encounters with the city.
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’.