About the Show

About the Play

This award-winning stage adaptation by renowned playwright James DeVita takes Lewis Carroll’s original Through the Looking Glass and literally runs with it.  This wild adaptation highlights and improvises on the pure, unadulterated fun of the story.  The play still retains some of Carroll’s deeper meanings, but what it possesses most of all is a huge helping of unabashed silliness!  This delightful romp through Alice’s looking glass land retains all of the familiar characters then introduces dozens of new ones:  a baseball team, a gospel group called The Responsibilities, a train conductor, a peanut salesman, detectives, a Miss America pageant, star-struck tourists, plastic light saber wielding knights and much more.  Set requirements are minimal.  The play can be performed on a bare stage with suggested set changes accomplished with lighting, or the production can be as huge as your imagination and budget allow.  The Children’s Book and Play Review declares, "This is an excellent script...  delightful, amusing and believable in a land that’s not." 

Synopsis

Opening Scene: Alice Scolds her kitty and before you know it she’s in Looking Glass Land

First Square: Alice meets the chess pieces. Curiouser and curiouser

Second Square: Alice becomes a pawn and resolves to pursue queenship. Talking flowers yield to proper authorities. 

Fourth Square: A pawn, you know, can move two squares in the first move. She Slides into fourth and meets Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee

Fifth Square: Alice Meets a grumpy Humpty

Sixth Square: The Lion and the Unicorn fight for the crown, but Alice emerges victorious. 

Seventh Square: The knights do battle, and again Alice emerges victorious

Eighth Square: Queenship isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and before you know it, Alice is back with her Kitty

Cast of Characters

Alice - The Same one that Chased the Rabbit down the hold

Mother’s Voice - Offstage

Red King - Soporific monarch

White King - Defender of the crown

Red Queen - Vicious, nasty temper

White Queen - Befuddled but beneficent

Red & White Pawns - Pawns in the hands of their queen

Daisy, Tiger-Lily, and Rose - Talking Flowers

Proper Authorities (3) - Sees to it that everything is proper, will also play the baseball Announcer, Ump, and Catcher

Vendor - Generous popcorn Seller

Hatta - White King’s Messenger

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum - Not statues, but poets

Train Conductor - By the rules tour guide

Tourists - Slaves to their Cameras

Ticket Seller - Sells Tickets, of course

Humpty Dumpty - Just don’t tell them they look like an egg

Unicorn & Lion - Hungry for power and cake

White Knight - Defends his Queen’s honor

Red Knight - Also defends the White Queen’s honor

Emcee - Masters the Ceremony

The Responsibilities - Jazzy Singing group (that may or may not sing)