7th July Not quite wonderland


Sometimes I have the feeling that things are not going to go well even before they have started. Arriving at the theatre in Derby on Friday to discover lots of small, un chaperoned, hyeractive children running round outside and in the foyer did not bode well.

We had come to see Alice In Wonderland which I had booked thinking it would be the kind of bright, energetic, fun thing we / TOM would like. What I hadn't realised was that it would also appeal to families with young children who seemed to have brought an entire tuckshop with them and who proceeded to munch and chat through proceedings with the attention span of well small children.

The show itself, well despite the good reviews it had received, wasn't the best thing we have ever seen. Whilst it's great to see lots of teenagers on stage it can also reduce the quality of whats on stage too.  And TOM didn't appreciate that it was based around the fact that British Sign Language (BSL) had been banned in Wonderland. 

Add to that the extraneous noise from the children and by the interval he had had enough and so we left. It's the first show we have left at half time and hopefully the last but I have to say that this was not the wonderland experience we had hoped for.

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