A performance by Compagnie Belova-Iacobelli
Freely inspired by ‘Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There’ by Lewis Carroll

A child plays with a small kitten in the ruins of her house while the adults are preparing to leave. A broken mirror, burned chess pieces, a rattle, a deck chair, a torn cushion, a shawl, scattered knitting needles – all part of the great game that awaits in the world beyond the mirror. The child’s journey will take her to a land where everything is upside down. Where the future is a thing you can remember. Where you can run away from home, but keep coming across it. Where you can send yourself by post if you don’t have a train ticket. Where running as fast as you can will leave you standing still. Where you can lose your name in the forgotten forest, only to find it again when you come back into the light. Where you can fight a war for a rattle (and finish in time for tea), become a Queen and throw your guests off their feet by pulling out the tablecloth at your coronation, or shake the Red King and turn him into a kitten.

But in the end… who is dreaming who?

It is a show about a child who plays her way through disaster. In her story, reality is stripped to the bone. By the absurd logic of fantasy, the origins of language are swept aside, words themselves are turned on their head, and the manipulation of discourse is countered, losing its power.