Cake

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Cake reimagines that bit in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where the Mad Hatter offers Alice cake at the tea party, only this time it's set in a modern-day office, amid a complex love triangle of sorts. 

The constant push-and-pull between Alistair Toovey and Grace Chadwick is both exceedingly well-choreographed and passionately performed, and Maria Morrison is delightful as the slightly ditzy mistress of ceremonies, vainly trying to force events into a form vaguely resembling a tea-party.

Cake works best as a showcase for the emerging skills of the young cast, a well-executed exercise in versatility and oddly graceful absurdity.