159 stories by "Alice Saville"
"Why can't I perform without the pressure to represent an entire culture or make a jaw-dropping statement on diversity?" Nicole Acquah writes on the difficulties of being politicised as a bl…
As 42nd Street continues to dazzle the West End, Alice Saville asks why Busby Berkeley's legacy is still bulletproof.
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Ten years after last seeing Tony Kushner's epic play cycle (and writing a PhD thesis on it) Emily Garside writes on why going to the NT's Angels in America feels like coming home.
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Alice Saville responds to an influx of complaints regarding Exeunt's review of the Royal Ballet's Mayerling.
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The trauma of Ireland's troubles is played out between two siblings in David Ireland's emotionally intense drama.
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Pain and pleasure: Louise Orwin's solo performance is a powerful, uneasy look at the trouble with sex positivity.
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From 19th century revolutionary Paris to the Black Lives Matter movements: Nemo Martin explores how Victor Hugo's story of protest is being reimagined by online fans.
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Politics and pain: Nic Green's performance is an artful exploration of rhetoric and deceit.
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Following the launch of The Bridge, a venture capital-funded space helmed by Nicholas Hytner, Alice Saville asks why London's new theatres are looking to the past, not the future.
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Edward Albee's play is "a wonderfully complex exploration of the boundaries of sexual freedom".
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A muddled adaptation of Leonora's surrealist novel in Peckham's new theatre space.
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'The Privileged' uses a furry polar bear suit to confront racism head on. Alice Saville chats to Jamal Harewood about audience reactions, game theatre, and his new performance 'Word'.
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"There's a huge culture of people from working class backgrounds feeling inadequate within the arts." Catherine Hoffman explains how shame keeps people powerless, and how her performance as …
Joan is a fiercely brilliant, drag king take on medieval history. Alice Saville chats to its creator Lucy J. Skilbeck about queer politics, Milk Presents, and why theatre should follow drag'…
There's a long history of same-sex romance between women being exploited as a male fantasy. Naomi Westerman talks about rejecting the male gaze, and her new play Puppy.
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Scottee's new show Bravado is an unsparing look at his relationship with masculinity. Here, he looks at confessional performance, self care, and asks "Must all working class artists bleed fo…
As cinema, TV broadcasts and online streaming offer more and more ways to watch performance, Alice Saville asks why the theatre world is so slow to embrace the potential of film.
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Le Gateau Chocolat must be one of the hardest working men in cabaret. But, he insists: "My whole career was a wonderful
Forget confetti cannons, soap stars and glitter-encrusted backdrops: Hackney Empire's acclaimed in-house panto has long seduced critics with a mixture of streetwise
Your two previous plays for the Royal Court have had modern settings: Kin was set in a girls' boarding school, while Hero looked
Across the city, people are troubled by nightmares, each with a horribly personal symbolism of their own; their only hope being Txema Pérez, this piece’s eponymous dreamer. A drifter …
There are certain things that we expect from vampires: they must drink blood, fear light, be immortal and be killed by a stake through the heart. However, new elaborations are gathering like…
The setting is a drawing room, idyllic fields beyond conjured by printed screens, but Stanley Houghton's play casts out the afternoon world of tea and scones for a whisky-fuelled criticism o…
What can we do if people treat us inhumanely? This is the question posed by Jonathan Salt's new play, and the answer he finds is: we must be more than human. This biopic of Janusz Korczak, a…
Life is unbearable, but drugs are a 'chemical lobotomy'; Sarah Kane's work is caught in a dilemma of pathologised grief, pill bottles and troubled relationships, messily expressing the event…
