No tea party: This is a dark and dizzying Alice for nostalgic adults

Jocelyn Clarke’s fluid adaptation for Sligo’s Blue Raincoat Theatre foregrounds Carroll’s adult gaze by giving us two Alices

Hilary Bowen Walsh and Brian Devaney in Alice In Wonderland at the Project Arts Centre

Alice in Wonderland

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Rating:***

Until Saturday

In Lewis Carroll’s classic 1865 novel, childhood innocence is polluted by the jargon of logic as the seven-year-old heroine Alice falls down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, where nonsense makes more sense than her new reality. The book is rich with metaphysical questioning and philosophical pondering, with ideas that grow larger the more that they are probed. Why do we mark minutes, but ...