 who doesn't fall down a rabbit hole. Her Wonderland is instead a 1990s vintage portable stereo/cassette player that once belonged to her dear father, and her quest — once she has been magically shrunk down inside it — is to repair this broken machine so she can hear once again his favourite music tape and, in){kind=link}
★★★★☆Staged in 1866, the first big full-length stage production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is said to have been a cross between a musical and a pantomime. Liverpool Playhouse’s update of Lewis Carroll’s surreal, pun-and-games-filled fantasy occupies similarly hybrid territory but gives it a peculiar but highly enjoyable new spin.
Here we have a teenaged and mechanically resourceful Alice (played with touching pluck by the Liverpudlian Paislie Reid) who doesn’t fall down a rabbit hole. Her Wonderland is instead a 1990s vintage portable stereo/cassette player that once belonged to her dear father, and her quest – once she has been magically shrunk down inside it – is to repair this broken machine so she can hear once again his favourite music tape and, in
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