A bloodless revolution: Ava Wong Davies writes on Mike Bartlett and Tinuke Craig’s underpowered take on Gorky’s political satire.
Ava Wong Davies
Articles by Ava Wong Davies
23 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Little Baby Jesus at Orange Tree Theatre
18 October - 16 November
By Ava Wong Davies
Ava Wong Davies writes on Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s production of Arinzé Kene’s play about teenagers on the cusp of adulthood, which ‘fizzes and froths like a half-drunk bottle of Coke’.
20 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: for all the women who thought they were Mad at Stoke Newington Town Hall
By Ava Wong Davies
Teetering on the verge: Ava Wong Davies reviews Zawe Ashton’s poetic play exploring black women’s experiences of mental health issues.
7 October 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Blood Wedding at Young Vic
By Ava Wong Davies
“Heteronormativity…it’s a curse!”: Ava Wong Davies writes on Marina Carr and Yael Farber’s bloody, binary take on Lorca.
20 September 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Anna Bella Eema at Arcola Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
“Get in, losers, we’re going capital-W Weird”: Ava Wong Davies writes on Lisa D’Amour’s startling, dreamlike story of female adolescence.
12 September 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Doll’s House at the Lyric Hammersmith
6th September - 5th October
By Ava Wong Davies
‘A whirling, inescapable funhouse of micro and macroaggressions’: Ava Wong Davies writes on Tanika Gupta’s new adaptation of Ibsen’s play, relocated to colonial India.
21 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Citizens of Nowhere by Ming Ho
By Ava Wong Davies
Securely knotted: Ava Wong Davies writes on Ming Ho’s intricate, site-specific exploration of British-Chinese identity.
20 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: SWIM at Pleasance Courtyard
By Ava Wong Davies
Floating away: Ava Wong Davies writes on a lukewarm devised piece about grief and wild swimming.
18 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The End by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas
By Ava Wong Davies
Adventures in attempted synchronicity: Ava Wong Davies writes on a devised performance about a friendship in flux.
17 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
EIF review: Oedipus by Robert Icke
By Ava Wong Davies
Fact before feeling: Ava Wong Davies writes on Rob Icke’s streamlined Oedipus.
15 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: OUT at Summerhall
By Ava Wong Davies
Glistening power: Ava Wong Davies writes on an exploration of blackness and queerness.
12 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Wild Swimming by Full Rogue Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
Contagious buoyancy: Ava Wong Davies writes on a time-slipping narrative of gender, love and swimming.
12 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats
By Ava Wong Davies
Rum-bunctious times: Ava Wong Davies writes on Sh!t Theatre’s boozy but intensely political dive into life in Malta.
9 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Tokyo Rose by Burnt Lemon
By Ava Wong Davies
Unfolding ambition: Ava Wong Davies writes on Burnt Lemon’s densely packed new gig theatre piece.
8 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The Afflicted by groupwork
By Ava Wong Davies
Giving me fever: Ava Wong Davies writes on a performance that complicates ideas of female mass hysteria.