Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Alice in Undergroundland
PETER MASON suspends his disbelief and disappears down a rabbit hole on the London Tube
VORPAL BLADE: Tatenda Matsvai as Alice
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Alice in Wonderland
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AFTER a modern-day Alice argues with her mum at Brixton underground station, the two are separated when she jumps on a train just as the doors are closing.
Unrepentant at first, Alice soon changes her tune as she finds out she’s not on a real journey but in a jangly Tube dreamland, where a host of strange figures are trapped on a never-ending trip to nowhere.
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