The director has made excellent use of the technical possibilities offered by Nicholas Wright's script.

ECONOMIST: New theatre

The scenario, by Nicholas Wright, includes a neat and inspired framing device suggesting the life of Carroll, in his real-life persona as Charles Dodgson, and that of the family of the eponymous Alice, the Liddells.

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But what caused even more of a stir was Mr Pearson Wright's vehement attack on Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, the day after picking up his cheque.

ECONOMIST: Art