Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of “A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA 21st October 2023 Wurtzel, David (2019-11-18). "Theatre review: [BLANK] by Alice Birch". Counsel Magazine . Retrieved 2022-11-15. When she started out in the industry she certainly faced sexism. “I remember someone telling me that my play, had it been written by man, would have been seen as metaphorical and about the world, but because it was written by a woman, it was a kitchen-sink drama, domestic. Those kind of things feel quite embedded.” Cavendish, Dominic (18 May 2016). "Ophelias Zimmer at the Royal Court is a far-flung feminist take on Hamlet - review". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 17 March 2020. Little Light was actually her first full-length script, Birch explains: written just after she left university, it has echoes of her own life. “Of course it’s fictional, but I wanted to write about sisters – that relationship can be so complicated. It’s an exploration of grief and of family; there’s something very particular about when families get together and tell stories about their past.”

A piece that gives impressive weight to the minutiae of chaotic lives while creating a panoramic sense of Britain today… delicious provocation from one of our most exciting playwrights’I’m all or nothing with the kids. When I’m with them, I try to forget everything else. When I’m writing, the banalities of motherhood such as head lice and sorting instrument lessons disappear. I write when the kids are asleep. I’ve always written well at night, but I’ve tended to over-romanticise the unhealthy, tortured pain of writing. You have to watch that. At 18, Birch joined the Royal Court Theatre’s young writers programme and spent a three-month unpaid internship in Los Angeles working for the film production company BenderSpink. [2] She writes in the dead of night – always has. “I don’t enjoy it, I find it painful and a bit torturous. I feel like psychologically I need to be quite far away from my child – and the rest of the world – but specifically him. There’s something about nighttime that you can be a bit braver. I really don’t look up when I’m writing, I don’t think about anyone’s response, nor an audience.” Radosavljević, Duška (24 August 2018). "Marguerite Duras' "La Maladie De La Mort": Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch Collaboration". The Theatre Times . Retrieved 18 March 2020. Walker, Amy (30 May 2019). "BBC reveals stars of its adaptation of Normal People by Sally Rooney". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 18 March 2020.

Robert Boulter and Scarlett Brookes in the RSC’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again by Alice Birch. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/Guardian a b Barraclough, Leo (12 February 2017). "Film4 Options 'Mothering Sunday' for Development With Number 9 (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved 18 March 2020.We partnered with the University of the Arts to offer introductory courses in make-up for theatre, costume and set design, and provide bursaries for courses at London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins – offering routes into theatre that were not performance-based.

Cavendish, Dominic (22 June 2014). "Midsummer Mischief, The Other Place at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 6 March 2020.

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Fisher, Philip. "Theatre review: 24 Hour Plays 2010 at The Old Vic". British Theatre Guide . Retrieved 23 March 2020. |Alice Birch’s heartbreaking new play reaches across society to explore the impact of the criminal justice system on women and their families.

Nice to MITEM you: the 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting Opens in the Hungarian Capital 27th September 2023Cappelle, Laura (3 October 2019). " 'Orlando' Awkwardly Transitions to the Stage". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 18 March 2020. Kelting, Lily (28 November 2016). "Flipping the switch: Katie Mitchell". EXBERLINER.com . Retrieved 18 March 2020. Billington, Michael (9 February 2015). "Little Light review – Alice Birch's play tests its performers (and our patience)". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 17 March 2020.