‘Like Beckett, if Beckett didn’t piss me off’: Ava Davies on Footprint Theatre’s gently radical two-hander about loneliness and the cosmos.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
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.
1 August 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Act at The Yard
Until 2 August 2018
By Ava Wong 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 Wong 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 Wong 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 Wong Davies
Show me the knottiness: Marc Pell’s gig-theatre show for nabokov doesn’t embrace its audience enough.
11 June 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: Shadow Kingdoms at Theatre503
June 5 - June 16
By Ava Wong Davies
A need for connection: Berri George’s new play centres on two graffiti-obsessed, thrill-seeking teenagers.
20 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Encounter at the Barbican
14 April - 5 May 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
I’ve seen it five times… Ava Davies reviews the return of Simon McBurney’s The Encounter to the Barbican
17 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Coconut at Ovalhouse
11 - 28 April, then touring.
By Ava Wong Davies
It wasn’t written for me: Ava Davies reviews Guleraana Mir’s play about a British Pakistani woman and her family
20 March 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Great Wave at the National Theatre
Until 14 April 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
Blood is thicker than water: Ava Davies writes on Francis Turnly’s The Great Wave.
27 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Trust at the Gate Theatre
22 February – 17 March 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
This accumulation of Stuff: Ava Davies reviews Jude Christian’s production of Falk Richter’s play about broken relationships and broken capitalism
29 January 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: Silk Road at VAULT Festival
January 24 - January 28
By Ava Wong Davies
Rock Paper Scissors Shoot. Ava Davies responds to Alex Oates’ one-man darknet drama.