Little Acorn's latest production is a stylish and neat adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic philosophically orientated children's novel. Well paced and crafted, it managed to encompass all of the main scenes from the book without becoming bogged down in its own self-indulgence.
The play starts out strikingly with a chorus of creatures chanting the poem Jabberwocky to a sleeping Alice on the floor, but sadly never manages to quite live up to the promise of this opening.
With the action all based round a large central prop comprising everything from a house to a chessboard and incorporating the eponymous looking glass itself, the movements are kept speedy with no wasted time whilst the actors do well with the stilted period dialogue and rambling existential stories.
Ultimately the play is rather unexceptional. It drives through well enough as it dryly tells the story of the book, but without ever straying far from the most cursory interpretations of the story.