As Equity drafts a new code of conduct for critics, Alice Saville writes about racism and reviewing.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
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.
5 February 2020
Features
The Problematised Populism of MONA FOMA
By Alice Saville
Tasmania’s triumphantly weird arts festival lures in audiences with magic, sweat and glitter.
20 January 2020
Features
A Festival of Brexit
By Alice Saville
As plans are taking shape for 2022’s £120m post-Brexit arts extravaganza, here are some more outward-looking ways to mark Britain’s exit from the EU.
27 November 2019
Features
Exeunt Recommends: December 2019
By Alice Saville
Oh no, this list doesn’t include any pantos – but there are plenty of other wintry delights in Exeunt’s UK-wide tips on what to see this December.
18 November 2019
Features
How do theatre critics become experts?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on how ideas of expertise are used to define who gets to have an opinion on theatre.
6 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Antipodes at National Theatre
By Alice Saville
Endless spirals: Alice Saville writes on the looping, time-bending world of Annie Baker’s interrogation of storytelling.