As part of the programme of events, South Korean composer Unsuk Chin will adapt Alice Through the Looking Glass, based on Lewis Carrol's fantastical story with librettist David Henry Hwang.

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Riding the compartment full of harlequins, fairies and assorted fur-balls, I felt like Alice falling through the looking glass.

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Like Alice and the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, firms following the traditional path will have to run faster and faster just to to stay in the same place.

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