Ali in Wonder(Eng)land: LegalAliens Theatre

“Pure theatrical imagination”
— Alastair Ball, Tottenham Community Press 

Ali is leaving. There is no other option. 

Following a white rabbit’s promises of red buses, perfect queues and the sixth largest economy in the world, Ali falls down a very familiar hole and lands in Wonder(Eng)land, a place that looks welcoming but works against you. 

Twice Offie nominees LegalAliens Theatre returns to Jacksons Lane with a re-imagining of their 2023 hit, Ali in Wonder(Eng)land, a riotous, politically sharp show performed by an ensemble of refugees and migrants, each bringing their own experience of the system Ali must navigate: the doors that are always the wrong size, the crowd that decides what you are before you speak, the interview with no right answers, the people who want to help and make everything worse.

Carroll’s Wonderland was always about a world whose rules exist to exclude. This one just has better paperwork. 

LegalAliens Theatre is a migrant-led Theatre of Sanctuary based in Haringey. Since 2012 they have created visually engaging ensemble theatre – from plays in translations, to devised performances to the recent International production “The Flowers of Srebrenica” –  platforming migrants and refugees as artists, participants and collaborators. Their Tottenham Project, running weekly since 2018, is a unique space for those who have experienced migration and displacement to meet, learn theatre skills and create together.

Created and performed by Legal Aliens Theatre’s Tottenham Project Ensemble, entirely made of participants with lived experience of migration and/or forced displacement. 

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