The common soldiers, the everyday heroes: Ava Davies reviews Alice Oswald’s elegy to the dead of the Iliad.
Ava Davies
Articles by Ava Davies
9 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Humans at Hampstead Theatre
Until 13 October 2018
By Ava 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Davies
‘Glitters with warmth’: Ava Davies reviews Le Gateau Chocolat’s cabaret version of The Ugly Duckling.
1 August 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Act at The Yard
Until 2 August 2018
By Ava Davies
‘The silliness, the fumbling, the mistakes’: Ava Davies reviews Company Three’s show about teenage love.
16 July 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Hive City Legacy at Roundhouse
July 10th-21st 2018
By Ava Davies
“Amazing what can happen when you don’t just programme white people” – Ava Davies on the humming energy of a show made by femmes of colour.
9 July 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: For King and Country at Southwark Playhouse
Until 21 July 2018
By Ava Davies
Futility and horror: Ava Davies on a revived WWI drama, and the strange way the war sits in our national consciousness.
2 July 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: Suitman Jungle at the Roundhouse
By Ava Davies
Show me the knottiness: Marc Pell’s gig-theatre show for nabokov doesn’t embrace its audience enough.