Alison is a new media interdisciplinary piece by Keely Westwood that blends film, theatre, electronic music, dance, live visuals and technology to explore a single question: Who are you, really and who did you become while trying to survive this world?

Loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Alison follows one woman as she slips between surreal dream-logic and harsh modern reality, grappling with identity, guilt, morality, and the pressure to be something coherent in a world that makes no sense. Each scene drops her deeper through absurd childhood memories, corrupted cities, and courtrooms run by mirrored versions of herself until she's forced to face the possibility that there may be no truth, no real self, and no way out.

The piece is staged at Amsterdam's IDLab Theatre, using 360° projections, holograms, motion tracking, and immersive lighting to pull the audience directly into Alison's unraveling psyche. There's no fourth wall here, only reflection. The audience becomes witness, accomplice, and mirror.

The sound world combines fast, glitchy electronics with emotional vocals and orchestral strings, all mixed in surround to overwhelm and engulf. There's live dance, visual artists, holograms, actors, film, and an original score. Everything works together to create a fractured, shifting environment where reality is always in question.

Alison explores navigating a sense of self, morals and sanity in a wonderland of overconsumption of media, of identity and meaning. Growing up and losing who you were, the fear of becoming what you swore you wouldn't, and the way we perform versions of ourselves to meet impossible expectations. It's about the psychological cost of living in a world that demands more of you than you can give. Alison is angry at injustice, at apathy, at how easily we all let things slide.

With its deeply personal storytelling and visceral staging, Alison invites audiences into a world of fractured reality and uncomfortable truths. A space where the lines between victim and perpetrator, hope and despair, and sanity and madness blur. This is not just a retelling of Alice in Wonderland; it's a dive into the human condition, laid bare in all its complexity and contradiction.

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