1. What inspired you to adapt Alice in Wonderland for the stage?
Alice… is such a popular book, one feels an automatic scepticism about picking it up, it belongs to ‘everyone’ and so many things have been done with it. Alice escapes from a ‘boring hot day’ into a mad world. We took this premise as a metaphor. We need an escape from our ‘boring hot days’ (in this play we interpreted it as a routine mundane life)...and an escape that we often do not have the luxury of or haveu00a0forgotten how to. For a very short while to be, dream, be mad and not have to make sense at all. But our adult lives do not permit us this indulgence into imagination. This was the conceptual inspiration. I felt that a book as wonderfully mad and complex as this would present huge challenges with object theatre, and there I was right.