Pure artifice: Ava Wong Davies writes on Ivo van Hove’s stylish, performative recasting of the backstage movie.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
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.
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.