Playwright Anchuli Felicia King’s grimly comic satire of the Singapore skin-lightening industry opens at the Royal Court this week. In this interview, she discusses Mamet, Crazy Rich Asians, and late-stage capitalism.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
2 May 2019
Reviews
Review: Out of Water at Orange Tree Theatre
27th April - 1st June 2019
By Ava Wong Davies
Murky green depths: Ava Wong Davies writes on Zoe Cooper’s rippling exploration of gender fluidity in a coastal town.
10 April 2019
Reviews
Review: Pah-La at Royal Court Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
Catching light: Ava Wong Davies writes on Abishek Majumdar’s narrative of non-violent protest in Tibet.
21 March 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: My White Best Friend at the Bunker
By Ava Wong Davies
‘Pulled out of the gut, steaming and red and alive’: Ava Wong Davies writes a response to Rachel De-Lahay and Milli Bhatia’s festival of letters, which engages with racial tensions and white privilege.
21 March 2019
• OWE & Fringe • Uncategorized
Review: My White Best Friend at Bunker Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
‘Pulled out of the gut, steaming and red and alive’: Ava Wong Davies writes a response to Rachel De-Lahay and Milli Bhatia’s festival of letters, which engages with racial tensions and white privilege.
16 March 2019
Reviews
Review: Betrayal at Harold Pinter Theatre
5th March - 1st June
By Ava Wong Davies
“Not a cosy play, this” – Ava Wong Davies writes on Pinter’s study of adultery, staged with icy persuasiveness by Jamie Lloyd.
17 February 2019
Reviews
Review: All About Eve at Noël Coward Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
Pure artifice: Ava Wong Davies writes on Ivo van Hove’s stylish, performative recasting of the backstage movie.
28 January 2019
Reviews
Review: Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹 at Camden People’s Theatre
22nd January - 9th February
By Ava Wong Davies
‘That little jump in the stomach at seeing your body onstage, accompanied by a desire for something more’: Ava Wong Davies responds to Jennifer Tang’s exploration of British-Chinese identity.
21 January 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
NOW 19: 24 Italian Songs and Arias; Diana is Dead, at the Yard Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
‘Brutally sincere’: Ava Wong Davies writes on the Yard’s double bill of work by Brian Lobel and FK Alexander, which explore failure and Princess Diana.
14 December 2018
Reviews
Review: That Night Follows Day at Southbank Centre
By Ava Wong Davies
“They have the power here”: Ava Wong Davies writes on a Forced Entertainment show that forces us to take kids seriously.
5 December 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: True West at Vaudeville Theatre
23rd November-23rd February
By Ava Wong Davies
Ava Wong Davies writes on a production that’s strong in hotness, but lacking in menace.
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.