But in Wicked, we get to see the events of The Wizard of Oz from a completely new angle. And in last year’s After Alice, he explores the effects Alice had on Wonderland once she’d gone. In Mirror, Mirror, he reveals the motivations of Snow White’s stepmother. In Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, he shows us another version of Cinderella’s tale.
Gregory Maguire, however, has a habit of producing novels that show us another version of events. One I’ve always been particularly fond of is Wicked, which I last saw in March earlier this year. It feeds into my minor obsession with the fact that there are two sides to every story, and often we only hear one of them. If I’m not reading, I do enjoy the theatre, particularly a good musical. “A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air.”
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