Louisa Saunders

London

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Freelance Journalist and Editor at The i Paper

Editor and journalist, mostly to be found at @theipaper. Formerly associate features editor on the Independent, and @mosaicscience.com

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Articles

Clap-happy audiences are ruining theatre

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Louisa Saunders

There is a new trend lurking on the theatrical horizon – and it is not one whose arrival fills me with any joy. Like so much in our entertainment culture – such as standing ovations almost as a matter of course at the end of every big show, no matter the quality – it is an American import and one which I would dearly have liked to stay safely on the other side of the Atlantic.
Never mind Ravel’s exquisite music - I was scared someone would die on stage

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Alexandra Coghlan |Louisa Saunders

Classical music is occasionally terrifying, often thrilling and always charged with risk, but it’s rarely death-defying in a literal sense. Watching the acrobats of Australian troupe Circa hurtling head-first down a 20ft pole towards the floor, only the grip of their thighs between them and a broken neck, inspired all kinds of emotions.
I’m working class – middle-class people should stop writing about our lives

1 month ago | msn.com | Louisa Saunders

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TV has a posh problem. This is how to fix it

1 month ago | msn.com | Louisa Saunders

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Rebooted Gareth Southgate drama scores again

1 month ago | msn.com | Louisa Saunders

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Robert Pattinson is perfect in Bong Joon-ho’s farcical space opera Mickey 17

2 months ago | msn.com | Louisa Saunders

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Cate Blanchett blazes on stage in The Seagull

2 months ago | msn.com | Louisa Saunders

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Gene Hackman was the last great everyman actor

2 months ago | inews.co.uk | Louisa Saunders

Gene Hackman was one of Hollywood’s last great everyman actors. Whether playing tough guy cops, a superhero villain or the eccentric head of a family of New York aristocrats, the star – who died yesterday age 95 – brought a searing grittiness to his roles. He never seemed to care much whether audiences liked him – only that they stopped whatever they were doing and paid attention. In a business defined by glamour, he was the anti-movie star who conquered the box office through sheer force of will.
Rami Malek fans might want their money back after seeing Oedipus

Feb 5, 2025 | msn.com | Louisa Saunders

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Anniversary events are killing the arts

Jan 5, 2025 | inews.co.uk | Louisa Saunders

Jane Austen; Bananaman; Peter the Great; the cast of EastEnders: no, not the most awkward fantasy dinner party ever (“Jane, you slag!”), but a little taste of what’s to come in 2025. A new year means a new set of anniversaries looming at the horizon – the chronologically assigned horsemen of a cultural apocalypse so inevitable, so inexorable, so total, that most of us have long since stopped trying to fight it.