And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are….

COMEDY: Hatty Ashdown + Cariad Lloyd | The Montpelier (Peckham) | 15 May 
Off-beat ‘Nan Child’ Hatty Ashdown and lady character comic Cariad Lloyd give their respective solo shows a go, in this informal workshop night. Whilst entry is free, RSVP-ing via montycomedy@gmail.com is essential. Details here.

DANCE: The Measures Taken | Linbury Studio Theatre (Royal Opera House) | 15-16 May (pictured)
Rambert and Random Dance star Alexander Whitley, whose focus is now more on choreography, creates a mixed bill featuring ‘The Measures Taken’, a piece in which a cast of five penetrate the interplay between light and air, and an intense and elegiac pas de deux titled after Marx’s ‘All That Is Solid Melts Into Air’. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE: Alice | V&A | 15-18 May
Young Vic associate dramatist Poppy Burton-Morgan’s puppet adaptation of ‘Alice In Wonderland’ moves Carroll’s hallucinatory fairy story forward to 1915, making Alice a mother with a son fighting in WW1. Both take a trip back down the rabbit hole to avoid the horrors of the war. Details and tickets here.