MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Open-air Alice a treat from Welsh National Opera
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Sophie Yelland (Tweedle Dum) and Claire Hampton (Tweedle Dee)
JOSEPHINE BARBARO welcomes a diverse anthology of experiences by autistic women that amounts to a resounding chorus, demanding to be heard
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
PETER MASON is entertained by the autobiography of Charlie Harper, one of punk’s most enduring figures
JAMIE BRITTON reaches for the sick bucket as he is forced to engorge detail after detail of the Royal Family’s wealth
STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival
THIS production by Will Todd of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is staged in a woodland setting at the National Trust’s Dyffryn Gardens.
The Welsh National Opera makes a triumphant return to the stage with a bravura performance of the children’s story which has Fflur Wyn as a beguiling Alice rushing into a pet shop with her family for shelter from the rain.
A white rabbit starts talking to her and the most surreal of adventures begins, spread across the beautiful gardens and the early evening bucolic setting includes the local birdlife joining in as a perfectly judged chorus.
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