Alice in Wonderland • Poltergeist Theatre x Brixton House
2022 | Composer & Sound Designer
Multi-award-winning company Poltergeist weave rap music together with the sights and sounds of Brixton into a hundred-mile-an-hour Christmas adventure
One of the top 25 Christmas shows 2022 for The Guardian and Evening Standard
After an explosive argument with Mum on a Victoria line station, eleven-year-old Alice leaps onto the tube seconds before the doors hiss shut.
Trapped on a train speeding into Nonsense, surrounded by weird and wonderful passengers, and at the mercy of a Queen who won’t relinquish the controls, can Alice turn this train around?
Multi-award-winning company Poltergeist weaves rap music together with the sights and sounds of Brixton into a hundred-mile-an-hour Christmas adventure. This alternative family Christmas show is created by Poltergeist.
★★★★ “One of the UK’s Best Young Companies”
The Guardian (for Art Heist)
★★★★ “Brilliantly inventive”
The Stage (for Lights Over Tesco Car Park)
★★★★★ “the best!”
LondonTheatre1 (for Ghost Walk)
Cast
Alice – Nkhanise Phiri
Queen of the Line, Chatter, Mum – Toyin Ayedun-Alase
Rabbit, Pigeon, Hammersmith – Khai Shaw
Tortoise, Dum, Rat, District – Rosa Garland
Cat, Dee, Nose, Circle – Will Spence
Creative Team
Director and Lead Writer – Jack Bradfield
Composer and Sound Designer – Alice Boyd
Set and Co-Graphic Designer – Shankho Chaudhuri
Costume Designer – Debbie Duru
Producer for Poltergeist – Emily Davis
Lyricist and Rapperturg – Gerel Falconer
Production Manager – Ethan Hudson
Illustrator and Co-Graphic Designer – Israel Kujore
Lighting Designer – Rajiv Pattani
Company Stage Manager – Chloe Ashley
Deputy Stage Manager – Chloe Astleford
Assistant Stage Manager – Gracie Adlington
Costume Supervisor – Isobel Pellow
Fight Director – Rebecca Wilson
Fight Director – Lucy Wordsworth
LX Programmer – Gareth Weaver
BSL Interpreter – Rachel Jones
Dance Captain – Khai Shaw
Devised by Poltergeist
Supported by NDT Broadgate