Young masters: Poltergeist Theatre’s performance is an entertaining rampage through an art gallery.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
8 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The Patient Gloria at Traverse Theatre
By Alice Saville
Feminist joy: Alice Saville writes on Gina Moxley’s intergenerational exploration of female desire.
8 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Miss AmeriKa by Spitfire Company
By Alice Saville
Worm in the big apple: Alice Saville writes on Mirenka Cechova’s rapped performance about life as an immigrant in New York city.
7 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Tricky Second Album by In Bed With My Brother
By Alice Saville
Night sweats: In Bed With My Brother’s exhilarating show mixes rave energy with political fury.
6 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: All of Me by Caroline Horton
By Alice Saville
Sorry, not sorry: Alice Saville writes on Caroline Horton’s unapologetically, triumphantly bleak narrative of depression and death.
2 August 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Tree at Manchester International Festival
By Alice Saville
Star power: Alice Saville writes on Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s South Africa-set immersive show.
31 July 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The View UpStairs at Soho Theatre
By Alice Saville
Beyond nostalgia: Alice Saville writes on a nuanced musical about a lost 1973 gay bar.
24 July 2019
Features
A Helter Skelter Ride Through Latitude
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville sorts the (pink) sheep from the GOATs in her write-up of 2019’s frenetic Latitude festival.
19 July 2019
Reviews
Review: The Nico Project at Manchester International Festival
By Alice Saville
Frozen Warnings: Alice Saville writes on Maxine Peake’s shiver-inducing performance as Nico.
16 July 2019
Features
Encounters With Reykjavik Fringe
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville discovers a fringe arts explosion at Iceland’s new festival of grassroots performance.
13 July 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Peter Gynt at National Theatre
By Alice Saville
Pig-nosed whimsy: Alice Saville writes a poem in response to Hare’s firmly unpoetic rewrite of Ibsen’s verse drama.
20 June 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Bitter Wheat at Garrick Theatre
7th June - 21st September
By Alice Saville
A bitter draft: Alice Saville reluctantly reviews David Mamet’s Weinstein play.
12 June 2019
Features • Essays
Do trigger warnings ruin theatre’s power to surprise?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on theatre’s uneasy relationship with trigger warnings, and the faultlines they reveal.
4 June 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Rutherford and Son at National Theatre
By Alice Saville
A room without a view: Alice Saville writes on the claustrophobic domesticity of Githa Sowerby’s play.
7 May 2019
Features
Immersive theatre, and the consenting audience
By Alice Saville
Immersive shows like Barzakh push their audiences to extremes. But can you really consent to an experience you know nothing about?