Sure to enthral audiences of all ages, Alice in Wonderland at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester is wonderfully wacky and witty and captures the imagination right from the very start. The show runs until the 14 August, so hop to it and grab a ticket – you’d be mad to miss it.
FIRST LOOK: Take a first peek at an East End wonderland with production images of Alice in Canning Town
What would Wonderland look like is it was created in an East End playground? A lot like these images from Alice in Canning Town, the new adaptation of Carroll’s famous story staged in Newham’s Arc in the Park. Take a look then book your tickets!
WATCH: Take a trip to an East End wonderland with the trailer for Alice in Canning Town
As Alice in Canning Town brings its East End reinvention of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Newham playground, Arc in the Park, get a flavour for the show with this new trailer. And book your tickets!
BEHIND THE SCENES: Go down the rabbit hole and into rehearsals for Alice in Canning Town
It may be seemingly free of enchanted food, grinning felines and time-concerned rabbits, but you can already see larger than life characters emerging in these rehearsal pictures of Alice in Canning Town. Take a look, then book your tickets!
‘The space turns each audience member into Alice’: The creators of Alice in Canning Town tell us about the new playground-set adaptation of the famous fantasy
“We are falling down the most extraordinary rabbit hole,” writer James Kenworth and director James Martin Charlton tell us about bringing East End Wonderland adaptation, Alice in Canning Town. to a Newham playground. Read the interview then book your tickets.
NEWS: Wonderland gets an East End makeover in Alice in Canning Town
Alice will find herself in the East End of London when she pops out of her rabbit hole this summer, as Lewis Carroll’s famous story receives a modern makeover for Alice in Canning Town. Time to book those tickets – you don’t want to be late!
‘Seamless, energetic & fast-paced’: ALICE: THE MUSICAL – Belfast ★★★★
As a perfect alternative to pantomime, this inventive, colourful, entertaining and story-based production of Alice: The Musical will engage the entire family with its well-known and well-loved characters and dream-like adventures.
‘Everything for the inner child & perfect for the outer ones’: ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Ipswich ★★★★
Joanna Carrick’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, a spirited three-hander, is astonishingly faithful to Lewis Carroll’s text and, importantly, spirit.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… Alice in Winterland’s Daniel Goode
‘We’re still rehearsing at the moment so there are bits I haven’t seen and bits we’ve yet to work on, but there is something wonderful about seeing a theatre space so populated – this is very rare these days – so the mixture of professional actors and an exuberant youth theatre is one of my favourite elements of this show.’
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Chester
I’ve seen Alice In Wonderland in almost every incarnation, now and watching this version, adapted by Glyn Maxwell, in the glorious open air setting of Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre was a real treat.
ALICE’s ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND – The Vaults
Alice’s Adventures Underground at The Vaults underneath Waterloo station is not just a show, it’s an experience. An experience which everyone should have. It’s magical, mystical, unique and altogether brilliant.
Press pass revisited: Has wonder.land improved since its Manchester premiere?
When wonder.land premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July, reviews were decidedly mixed. National press who made the trip north were underwhelmed, bestowing a raft of three-star ratings, while local critics were kinder, bumping it up to a four-star show. In the intervening months, rumour has it, there’s been extensive redevelopment of this digital-age […]
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Junior Review – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Very mad
Junior review by Cora Dibdin:
This was a play of Alice in Wonderland done by teenagers. I have read the book and I liked it. It was mad.
Press pass: Everything you need to know about Damon Albarn’s wonder.land
Is it all a Blur? That’s a pun you may hear frequently in relation to the musical theatre debut of the seminal 1990s band’s frontman, Damon Albarn, which opened in Manchester last night. wonder.land is Albarn’s digital-age take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Lewis Carroll children’s classic celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.
WONDER.LAND – Manchester & London
Wonder.land is a brand new musical, directed by Rufus Norris, that is being performed as part of the Manchester International Festival. Taking its inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s classic novel Alice in Wonderland, the new musical tells the story of Aly, a young teen who battles with bullies at school and struggles to find happiness at home with her mother and baby brother ‘cabbage pants’ Charlie. Aly is unable to look to her father for support either, as although he loves her dearly, he is addicted to online gambling.
WONDER.LAND – Manchester & London
Fifty minutes in, we got a 30ft yodelling falsetto caterpillar with flashing saucer eyes, and I cheered up. It also, as it happens, sang the central message of Damon Albarn’s musical, centrepiece of the Manchester International Festival in partnership with the National Theatre ( Rufus Norris himself directs). The message is “Who are you?”, ‘cos it’s all about teenage self-realisation in the age of broken homes and feral schools under the cosh of Goveian superheads. This necessitates a girl’s escape down the rabbit-hole of the smartphone, to become a braver avatar of herself.