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We’re all a little mad here

01 Thursday Jul 2021

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Alice in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, Dress Rehearsals, rehearsals

Alice again tonight – on the very, very large outside stage, where we never did it before… Continue reading →

Making cardboard biscuits

17 Thursday Jun 2021

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Alice in Wonderland, Eat me, props, Sognando Alice, stage direction, Tara Maginnis

Two days to Sognando Alice – that is, A Dream of Alice…

Rehearsals tonight, dress tomorrow – and Saturday we go onstage. We just got the hedges in the nick of time, and I’m not sure if and when the back platform will be mounted, and the overall pace and rhythm still aren’t quite what they ought to be, and the Duck’s mask has proved highly unpractical, and there’s that change they still botch every damn time, and last night sudden blanks appeared where there used to be none, and the magnets for the tea arrived in time but just don’t work, and how on earth do I keep the damn pudding steady, and there are moments when I want to hyperventilate, and can I have one more month? A week? Two days? Please…? Continue reading →

A bird in the boughs sang “June!”

03 Thursday Jun 2021

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#StoryADayMay, Alice in Wonderland, Clinton Scollard, directing, revision, theatre life

…And “June” hummed a bee
In a Bacchic glee
As he tumbled over and over
Drunk with the honey-dew.

And that was Clinton Scollard. That said… Continue reading →

Silent Alice

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Alice in Wonderland, Cecil Hepworth, silent movie, Sir John Tenniel

alice-chased-by-the-cardsThe first Alice film ever is this tiny 1903 silent, a relic from the  very infancy of cinema…

Just think: a hundred and twelve years ago. Continue reading →

Mr K. meets the Cheshire Cat

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, the Cheshire Cat

MrKandtheCatCouldn’t help myself. And it isn’t my fault, either: I saw the K. quote, and the conversation dawned on me – just like that.

Er… right. Enough. I think I’ll disappear for now… -ow… -ow… -ow… -ow…

 

                                        ♫ ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves… ♫

 

Unexpected Alices

14 Saturday Mar 2015

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Alice in Wonderland, Harry Ransom Center, Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalì, University of Texas at Austin, Vladimir Nabokov

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Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.

The original 1923 cover by Zalshupin for Anya in Wonderland, young Nabokov’s Russian not-quite-translation from Lewis Carroll, with changed names and Russian nursery-rhymes…

Who knew? Or that Salvador Dalì once made illustrations for Alice? All of this and much more can be seen in this fascinating exhibition at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas.

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