ALAN McGUIRE welcomes the complete poems of Seamus Heaney for the unmistakeable memory of colonialism that they carry
Alice in Undergroundland
PETER MASON suspends his disbelief and disappears down a rabbit hole on the London Tube
VORPAL BLADE: Tatenda Matsvai as Alice
[Helen Murray]
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a musical — and questioning — survey of Shakespeare’s attitude to women
MATTHEW HAWKINS enjoys the work of reading the essays of a rigorous and leading London/Caribbean cultural participant
ALEX HALL appreciates the history of a famous shoot-out that is sourced from diaries, letters, and newspapers of the time
MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
Alice in Wonderland
Brixton House, London
AFTER a modern-day Alice argues with her mum at Brixton underground station, the two are separated when she jumps on a train just as the doors are closing.
Unrepentant at first, Alice soon changes her tune as she finds out she’s not on a real journey but in a jangly Tube dreamland, where a host of strange figures are trapped on a never-ending trip to nowhere.
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MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a musical ‘love letter’ to black power activists of the 1970s
MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MARY CONWAY admires an accomplished drama that explores the consequences of a fatal punch on a desolate housing estate
MARY CONWAY applauds the dramatic reconstruction of one woman’s experience in one precise location in Gaza in the present era