Pain and pleasure: Louise Orwin’s solo performance is a powerful, uneasy look at the trouble with sex positivity.
Alice Saville
Articles by Alice Saville
27 April 2017
Reviews
Review: Cock and Bull at Southbank Centre
By Alice Saville
Politics and pain: Nic Green’s performance is an artful exploration of rhetoric and deceit.
11 April 2017
Reviews
Review: The Goat at Theatre Royal Haymarket
By Alice Saville
Edward Albee’s play is “a wonderfully complex exploration of the boundaries of sexual freedom”.
11 April 2017
Reviews
Review: The Hearing Trumpet at Theatre Delicatessen, Peckham
Until April 29th, 2017
By Alice Saville
A muddled adaptation of Leonora’s surrealist novel in Peckham’s new theatre space.
28 March 2017
Reviews
Review: Big Guns at The Yard Theatre
The Yard Theatre ⋄
By Alice Saville
Nina Segal’s play about violence shows how the internet turns us all into our own worst nightmares.
24 February 2017
Reviews
Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream at Young Vic Theatre
Young Vic ⋄
By Alice Saville
Joe Hill-Gibbins strips away Shakespeare’s moonshine and magic, and replaces it with an awful lot of mud.
9 January 2017
Features
A dialogue on theatre criticism in the digital age
By Alice Saville
Last month, debates on online theatre criticism raged after incendiary pieces by Michael Billington and Matt Trueman. In their wake, critics and academics Duška Radosavljević, Mark Fisher and Karen Fricker hold an international conversation about theatre, democracy and the role of criticality.
20 September 2016
Reviews
Review: Girls at HighTide
By Alice Saville
Theresa Ikoko’s Girls is a story of three kidnapped teenagers.
20 September 2016
Reviews
Review: Pilgrims at High Tide
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville reviews Elinor Cook’s slippery look at mountaineering and gender politics at High Tide Festival.
16 September 2016
Reviews
Review: Norma at the Royal Opera House
By Alice Saville
There’s soaring beauty and uncomfortable religious imagery in this new staging of Bellini’s opera by La Fura Dels Baus.