The Mad Hatter's Tea Party: an 'irresistibly feelgood production'

Kate Prince's hip-hop take on the Lewis Carroll classic is 'so much fun'

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the Royal Opera House
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party is 'compassionate yet comical'
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"This is hip-hop dance, and opera house rules do not apply." That's the message that comes through loud and clear at the start of "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party".

The 10th-anniversary run of ZooNation's staging of "Alice in Wonderland" has returned to the Royal Opera House in London, where it premiered a decade ago. And right from the outset the audience is encouraged to "make as much noise as possible", said Siobhan Murphy in The Stage.

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Irenie Forshaw is a features writer at The Week, covering arts, culture and travel. She began her career in journalism at Leeds University, where she wrote for the student newspaper, The Gryphon, before working at The Guardian and The New Statesman Group. Irenie then became a senior writer at Elite Traveler, where she oversaw The Experts column.