Alice again tonight – on the very, very large outside stage, where we never did it before… Continue reading
We’re all a little mad here
01 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted in Theatre
Tag Archives: Alice in Wonderland
Making cardboard biscuits
17 Thursday Jun 2021
Posted in Theatre
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
Posted in Poetry, Scribbling, Theatre
…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
Posted in Stories
The 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
Posted in Uncategorized
Couldn’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
Posted in Books, Eccentricities
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Alice in Wonderland, Harry Ransom Center, Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalì, University of Texas at Austin, Vladimir Nabokov
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.
