With more incident than drama, Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic is a tricky one to stage. The logical games that delight on the page can come across as haphazard in performance. Alice, too, can seem overly passive, the ineffectual centre of a chaotic world.
The solution of playwright Andrew Pollard in the Dukes theatre’s annual promenade around Williamson Park is to paint Alice as a modern-day Cinderella. Played with charm and determination by Eve Pereira, she is a girl bullied equally by teacher and classmates as they set out on a school camping trip. The arc of the story is to award Alice the status she deserves.
