LegalAliens Theatre

19/08/2026

Join us for two days of storytelling and creativity.

Canal River Trust and LegalAliens theatre invite you to join a living artwork of stories, resilience and belonging.

Share an anecdote, fold a paper bird... ...and become part of an evolving artwork celebrating courage & community.

Come to one of the free drop-in origami and storytelling workshops at Stonebridge Lock (Lee Navigation) from 12 noon, on Friday 11th & Saturday 12th September.

What you create will become part of a live PERFORMANCE on Saturday 12th September at 6.00pm.

Led by
Performed by participants in our Tottenham Project ensemble at

20/07/2026

Ali is Wonder(Eng)land getting a lovely review!

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13/07/2026

England is chasing a dream this Wednesday. So is Ali.

Except Ali's dream comes with wrong-size doors and paperwork. Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land plays its final performance at on the very same night.

So if football isn't your thing, round up your people and make a night of theatre instead.

Tickets almost gone. Don't miss it.

🎭 Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land
📍 Jacksons Lane, London
📅 14th - 15 July
🎟️ Tickets link in bio: www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/

12/07/2026

If you are planning to see only one show this summer, make it this one.

Here's the thing about this show. We tackle one of the most urgent, political stories of our time. The crowd that decides what you are before you speak. The interview with no right answers. The people who want to help and somehow make everything worse.

But we don't do it by sitting you down and making you feel guilty. We do it by making you laugh. Loudly.

And what makes this different is that every single person on that stage has lived some version of what you're watching. This is a story we know, we lived.

Described as "pure theatrical imagination."
Two nights only — and the seats are nearly gone.

Opening this Tuesday, 14th July, at Jacksons Lane, London.

Link in bio: https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/

10/07/2026

A few more days. Then Ali falls down the hole! We are all set to return to with Ali in Wonder(Eng)land.

Ali follows a white rabbit's promises of red buses, perfect queues, and the sixth largest economy in the world... and falls straight into Wonder(Eng)land. A place that looks welcoming, but works against you.

Created and performed by an ensemble of refugees and migrants, people who know this system from the inside.

📍 Jacksons Lane, London
Two nights only. 14–15 July 2026

Book before it sells out.
🎟Link in bio: https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/

09/07/2026

Alice fell into Wonderland. Ali fell into the UK immigration system. Same thing, really.

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. And works against you.

That's the story we, LegalAliens Theatre, tell in Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land — a riotous, hilarious, deeply human show performed by an ensemble who don't just know this story. We lived it.

Opening next week at . Very few tickets left.
The play text is available to purchase from opening night.

📍 Jacksons Lane, London
🎟️ Link in bio: https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/

08/07/2026

When a show gets written about in an academic paper, you know it's done something. This is how Peter Maber, Head of English at Northeastern University London, described Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land:

"A show about a system that looks rational and welcoming — but is built to keep the Migrant body permanently mis-sized, misnamed, tested, and displaced."

Which is one way to put it.

Another way: riotous, funny, and deeply human — performed by people who've been through exactly what you see on stage.

Both are true. Come and see for yourself.

🎭 Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land
📅 14–15 July 2026

Book now (link in bio): https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/

07/07/2026

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.

Created and performed by an ensemble of refugees and migrants, people who know this system from the inside.

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🎭 Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land
📍 Jacksons Lane, London.

Two nights only, 14–15 July 2026.

Book before it sells out.

06/07/2026

Under 25? Your ticket is £10. Tag someone who needs to see this.

Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land is a powerful show performed by LegalAliens Theatre's Tottenham Project Ensemble — refugees and migrants sharing their own stories through riotous, politically sharp theatre. 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.

🎭 Ali In Wonder(Eng)Land
🎟️ Under 25s: £10.
Link in bio: https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ali-in-wonderengland/