Alice adventures not in the traditional wonderland but on the London underground in this reshuffle by Poltergeist theatre company set along the Victoria line. It’s a smartly offbeat proposition for Lewis Carroll’s circular narrative as this venue is near Brixton station – both start and end of that line – and the tube brings its own world of codes and rules.
“See it, slay it, sorted” reads one sign on Shankho Chaudhuri’s set – referring to Carroll’s Jabberwocky – and lead writer Jack Bradfield has fun punning around the tube map. Using the play’s own nonsense language, here’s the plot: Alice is not very Poplar, becomes a Walthamstowaway on the underground and prays to the Seven Sisters she’ll make it home before Knightsbridge.
