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Quick facts:
Quick facts:
Runtime: 1 hour 40 mins
Number of characters: (without doubling): 20 with small ensemble added.
Recommended cast size: 13 - 20, Alice can be split between Alice Liddell (Oxford 1862 Prologue/Epilogue) and Fictional Alice (7 year old protaganist) if wanted.
Character doubling that must be used:
Dodgson/Dodo/The White Knight.
Duckworth/Duck
Edith/Eaglet
Lorina/Lory.
White Queen/Sheep
Characters:
Alice Liddell, Edith Liddell, Lorina Liddell, Charles Dodgson, Robinson Duckworth, Fictional Alice*, White Rabbit, Wonderland ensemble (Cards, Lobsters, Whiting, Snails), bottle voice, cake voice, Crocodile Voice, Mouse, Eaglet, Lory, Dodo, Duck, Canary, Old Magpie, Caterpillar, Father, Youth, Fish Footman, Frog Footman, Duchess, Cook, puppet baby, Cheshire Cat, Hatter, March Hare, Dormouse, Two, Five, Seven, Ace, Queen of Hearts, King of Hearts, Gryphon, Mock Turtle, Knave, Fictional Lorina*, Fictional Edith*, Puppet Kitty*, Puppet Dinah cat*, Puppet Snowdrop cat*, Looking-Glass Ensemble (Toves, Borogroves, chess pieces, Oysters, Oldest Oyster, soldiers), Jabberwock Puppet, Red Queen, Tiger-lily, Man in Paper Suit, Goat, Beetle, Train Guard, Fawn, Tweedle-Dum, Tweedle-Dee, Walrus, Carpenter, White Queen, Humpty Dumpty, Soldier, White King, Heigha, Hatta, Lion, Unicorn, Red Knight, White Knight.
asterisk beside means* = optional extra
Who was Lewis Carroll?
DODGSON: I've told you one story already today Alice, that's all till next time...
ALICE/LORINA/EDITH: Ah, but it is next time!
Victorian era author, mathematician, photographer and inventor, Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson) lived mostly in Oxford. The Alice tales started off as stories he told to the daughters of dean Henry Liddell, and to various adult friends.
Since there are lots of myths and half-truths out there about Dodgson, we recommend any theatre producing this play takes time to read this article by Jenny Woolf.
Links about Carroll's life and work:
Some essential resources for anyone planning a production:
Carroll-myth (looks at how Dodgson's biographers accidentally undid his legacy a century later... oops.)
Alice's Day, Oxford (Annual celebration of the Day Dodgson first started telling the Alice tales)
Books:
Biographies:
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf, 2010 biography
In the Shadow of the Dreamchild, Karoline Leach, 1999 biography.
For younger actors/audiences:
The Other Alice, Christina Bjork
One fun Day with Lewis Carroll, Kathleen Krull
Who Was Lewis Carroll?, Pam Pollack.
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