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A reimagined story for a contemporary London audience
L-R Toyin Ayedun-Alase as Chatter and Nkhanise Phiri as Alice
[Helen Murray]
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Alice in Wonderland
Brixton House, London SW9
ONE OF the great things about Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is that it’s so transferable — it easily works as a reimagined story for a contemporary London audience.
Lead writer and director Jack Bradfield transports us to south London’s Brixton in 2022, and 11-year-old Alice (a very impressive Nkhanise Phiri) doesn’t want to go to her nan’s.
She gets into a huge row with her mum on the Tube, where Alice suddenly jumps onto a train going in the opposite direction as the doors close shut.
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