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Theatre Lab Company’s new production is an innovative re-telling of the beloved classic story, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland accompanied by an original live musical score.

A story blending the old and the new, classic and contemporary, reality and imagination, all coming together in the quest to understand our identity. Set in contemporary London, Mr. Rose, a property investor, believes he has struck gold when he buys a new building, the Asylum, a former Victorian asylum. As he prepares to demolish the building, he decides to pay a visit to the site, only to find that it is not empty as expected. Here, he meets Alice, the last patient of the Asylum before it was forced to shut down in 1873. Curious and impatient, Mr. Rose does all he can to get Alice out of the Asylum and proceed with his dream of gentrification. Alice, however, has other ideas. It’s time for tea, you see.

The production will be staged at the Victorian Asylum Chapel in South London, then tour at The Electric Theatre, Guildford and the Old Fire Station, Oxford. Lewis Carroll had strong connections with all three cities throughout his life. At St. Mark’s Church in Maida Vale, recently destroyed by a fire, he first met the Liddell family whose youngest daughter, Alice, was the inspiration for his novel. He spent much of his life in Oxford where he studied and worked at Christchurch College and wrote Alice in Wonderland. Guildford is his resting place, at the Mount Cemetery, and he spent much time in Guildford visiting his sisters. He preached at St Mary’s Church, the Alice Through The Looking Glass statue can be seen in the castle grounds and the statue of Alice with her sister, watching the rabbit go down the hole is in Millmead by the river.

Creative Team 

Written by Lydia Vie
Directed by Anastasia Revi
Music by Hades
Costumes by Lisa Lach-Nielsen
Lights and photography by Yiannis Katsaris
Production by Martina Reynolds  

Cast 

Manolis Emmanouel 
Lydia Vie 
David Furlong 
Sevi Filippidou 
Hades
Christiana Maycea
Rujenne Green 

About Theatre Lab Company 

Theatre Lab Company is a London-based international company, with a reputation for mesmerising theatrical imagery, physical theatre/ performance and devised experimental work. Words, music, images and movement are brought together to create dynamic theatre that crosses the boundaries of culture, language, taboo and medium. The Company has been invited and participated in international theatre festivals in France, Edinburgh, London, Greece, Belgrade, Dublin, Prague and New York. Notable credits include their recent short-run commendation from Off West End for Great Expectations, Global Entertainment Awards for Most Innovative International Theatre Company, being flagged by official critiques for their production of Salome at Avignon Festival D’OFF, nominated as top performance of the 2007 Prague Fringe by main critique, the Prague Post. Awards include the Hellenic Foundation Award (1997), Critiques 1st Award, Prague International Theatre Festival (2007), nominations for a Fringe First and Total Theatre Awards, Edinburgh Festival (2007). Theatre Lab’s ancient Greek tragedy and comedy productions have been highly acclaimed.   

Credits include Emmeline: The Suffragette Movement (The Cockpit, 2021, UK Tour, 2023)  Heartbreak Hotel (Etcetera, 2022); A Respectable Wedding (Old Fire Station Oxford 2022 and Playground Theatre, 2018); Don Juan (The Vaults, 2022 and Hoxton Hall, 2018); Great Expectations (Playground Theatre, 2019); Lucrezia the Sinner, Lucrezia the Saint (Oxford Playhouse BT Studio, The Cockpit and Tour in Greece, 2019); Six Nights on the Acropolis with Stamatis Kraounakis (Hellenic Centre, London); Jamaica Inn (Tabard Theatre, 2017); Salomé (Hoxton Hall, London, 2017; Thessaloniki, Greece, 2014; Avignon Festival D’OFF, 2014; Cabaret Voltaire, Athens, 2013; The Old Cholmeley Boys’ Club, -Site Specific; 2012); Dancing with the Devil: A play about Rudolf Nureyev (Lilian Baylis, Sadler’s Wells, 2016); Medea (Riverside Studios, 2014); Psychostasia: The Performance (Riverside Studios, 2014; The Old Cholmeley Boys’ Club, 2013); Lysistrata (Riverside Studios, 2013); The Oresteia (Riverside Stu- dios, 2012); Medusa – The Beheaded Lover (Site Specific Performance, Shunt, Lon- don, 2011); Antigone (International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama, 2011, Riverside Studios 2010); The Fall of the House of Usher (Old Cholmeley Boys’ Club 2010).