Rather aptly for a show that has been adapted from a book, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is obsessed with storytelling.
“Tell me the story,” Alice begs her mother in the opening scene, and she obliges with a smile, explaining how her daughter was born. “I gave birth to you in the laneway,” she tells Alice. “Daddy realised that I wasn’t breathing, and he was trying to force the air into my lungs. Then suddenly you began to cry, wailing into the night. You brought me back to life.”
