A shattered treehouse: Alice Saville writes on the furious emotional intensity of Jason Robert Brown’s story of heartbreak, performed by two actor-musicians.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
2 October 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Sunnymead Court at Tristan Bates Theatre
By Alice Saville
Queer longings: Gemma Lawrence’s play charts a lockdown romance forged at a distance.
26 September 2020
Features
People are theatre’s biggest asset; it’s time to start valuing them
By Alice Saville
As the UK’s leaders use the language of business to justify further devastation to theatre, Alice Saville argues that they’re looking for value in the wrong places.
11 August 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux review: work.txt and work_from_home
By Alice Saville
Essential work: Alice Saville explores how Nathan Ellis’s interactive play works better from home.
7 August 2020
Features
NT at Home: An Incomplete Diary
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on surviving through lockdown, and learning to love livestreamed theatre.
24 July 2020
Features
An Apology, A Commitment
By Alice Saville
As Equity drafts a new code of conduct for critics, Alice Saville writes about racism and reviewing.
29 June 2020
Features
Some Reasons to Save the UK’s Theatres and Production Companies
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville collates some arguments for urgently funding theatres now, so that they’ll still be there for us in whatever world awaits us in 2021.
9 June 2020
Features
Holding Theatre to Account
By Alice Saville
A new initiative is holding theatres accountable on Black representation. Here’s more info, plus thoughts on Exeunt’s aims for the future.
14 May 2020
Features
What could socially distanced theatre look like?
By Alice Saville
We could have celebrity monologues in half-empty auditoriums. Or, we could look to the experimental theatremakers who’ve made space for new forms.
10 May 2020
Features
Theatre’s Left Behind Freelancers
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville surveys the freelance theatre workers who aren’t covered by government support, and have been left without income overnight.
30 March 2020
Features
The paradoxes of trying to make art during a pandemic
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on how coronavirus offers theatre an opportunity to rethink what ‘being in a room together’ really means.
2 March 2020
Reviews
A Grumpy Feminist’s Guide to Enjoying Pretty Woman the Musical
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville makes a big, huge attempt to appreciate the joys of the Julia Roberts flick-turned-heteronormative musical fantasy.
29 February 2020
Features
The costly stage magic of Caryl Churchill
By Alice Saville
With both ‘Far Away’ and ‘A Number’ on in London, now’s your moment to develop a Caryl Churchill obsession. Alice Saville writes on two plays that are designed to mesmerise.
29 February 2020
Reviews
Review: The Rage of Narcissus at Pleasance Theatre
By Alice Saville
Mirror, mirror: Alice Saville reflects on Sergio Blanco’s cool look at narcissism and murderous urges.
14 February 2020
Reviews
Review: All of It at Royal Court
By Alice Saville
“relentlessly forwards forwards forwards”: Alice Saville writes on Alistair McDowall’s warpspeed cradle-to-grave monologue, as performed by Kate Flynn.