Exploring Wonderland

Join the writer and director of Wonderland for a guided tour of the lost world depicted in the show.

Playwright Beth Steel will spend an hour in conversation with Nottingham Playhouse’s Artistic Director Adam Penford, who directs our staging of the muscular, ambitious drama whose Hampstead premiere in 2014 made her name.

Delve deeper with Beth and Adam into the creation of this remarkable play. Wonderland offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse beneath the surface of the 1980s Miners’ Strike, with settings ranging from Welbeck’s coalface to Whitehall’s corridors of power. How did Beth – herself the daughter of a Nottinghamshire miner – meld the personal and political into such gripping drama? And with this major revival marking Adam’s directorial debut at the Playhouse, do she and Adam share a sense of homecoming?