Lewis Carroll’s Alice has inspired plenty of stage spin-offs, but despite the ubiquity, Wonderland provides weak source material. Sure, there is a succession of surreal encounters and colourful characters, but at the centre is a heroine who’s fairly hollow.
For choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, though, Alice as a blank slate might well be the point. This Alice (Evelyn Hart) comes tumbling through the empty pages of a giant book (part of a clever rotating set), her life as yet unwritten. She is a girl heading towards adulthood; her surreal journey is adolescence.
