wonder.land review – occasionally dazzling, often garbled

Palace theatre, Manchester festival
Damon Albarn fails to pull a rabbit out of the hat in this modern reworking of Alice in Wonderland“Weirder and weirder,” notes one character, pointedly, in this contemporary retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story. We are in a girls’ toilet in a drab secondary school. From one of the cubicles emerges the Caterpillar (Hal Fowler), a psychedelic-eyed, multiperson creature, smoking a rolled-up white umbrella. The headteacher, Ms Manxome (Anna Franco