Alice in Maximum-Security Wonderland

“As a sound-system blasted a cha-cha-cha, the men began to dance. Wearing outlandish costumes with oversize hats and wigs, and boots with 15-centimeter heels from a Milanese store that caters to drag queens, they strutted and pranced.” It’s Alice in Wonderland, a Theatrical Essay on the End of a Civilization, performed by a company that for 21 years has made theater with, and for, inmates at a maximum-security prison in Italy.