Anna Picard

Alice in Wonderland at the Barbican reviewed: too much miaowing

But there’s dynamism and excitement aplenty in The English Concert’s performance of Hercules at the Barbican

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issue 14 March 2015

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson loved little girls. He loved to tell them stories, he loved to feed them jam, he loved to set them puzzles, and he loved to take their photographs. On 25 March, 1863, he composed a list of 107 prepubescent portrait subjects, arranged alphabetically by forename. Below the Agneses came the Alices, including Alice Liddell, the little girl for whom he created Alice in Wonderland.

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