Alice in Wonderland

The Company’s version of Alice in Wonderland:

The author of the play version of Alice’s adventures has shortened the story by selecting only some of the adventures from the original and by leaving out or changing some of the characters. Effectively, our Alice will only meet the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the King – not the Queen – of hearts and his army of playing cards. With help from the Cheshire Cat’s potions and the Caterpillar’s magic mushroom, Alice will grow smaller and bigger at different stops along the way from the hall of doors, through the beautiful garden, the Mad Hatter’s tea party and finally the King’s garden where the final game will be of football rather than croquet. Alice will anger the King by scoring a goal and be subsequently accused and sentenced to death for stealing the King’s cakes. After much problem solving and trying to make sense of these strange characters and situations Alice will wake up as from a dream. She will be a different Alice, hopefully more confident and mature, but has it really been a dream? A final appearance of the White Rabbit joining Alice for a song will leave this open to interpretation. Throughout the play, children will watch Alice solve problems, make mistakes, learn to listen, understand how time, logic and justice work to become increasingly resilient to make sense of the world of adults, one that is full of rules and judgment that often appears unfair, crazy and even dangerous.