Note that the agenda for the LCSNA’s spring meeting in Santa Fe on Saturday, May 9 has been updated and added to. In addition to Theaterwork’s performance of La Guida di Bragia, there will be a musical performance of the chamber piece “The Chess Game” (based on Through the Looking-Glass) – check out the details! I highly recommend attending if you can make it.
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Cosmetic bag
Japan always puts a nice twist on Alice… Check out this “goth style” black and white cosmetic bag sold by exporter Jbox.com.
Wonderland Circus
You are cordially invited to Wanderlust Circus’s performance of Wonderland Circus: “A tea party and theatrical review in honor of the new queen of wonderland, depicting her legendary adventures with a cast of the finest acrobats, jugglers, dancers, and musicians any world has ever known!” April 24 and 25, and May 1 and 2 at Portland’s Bossanova Ballroom.
Alice of the House of Carroll
April 24 through May 30, “Alice of the House of Carroll grabs you by the throat and kicks you down the rabbit hole into a wonderland filled with maniacs and thieves and where love melds with aggression. …the National Pastime Theater lifts Alice out of her comfortable place in children’s theater and thrusts her onto the city streets of late 19th century Chicago. Like our world today, Chicago at that time was a world that needed to rebuild. Alice, a pleasant little girl, pulses with an instability that is common to everyone and in particular, to a world, like ours, that seems to be disappearing down a rabbit hole. THIS SHOW IS NOT FOR CHILDREN OF ANY AGE.”
Wonderland
“Alice’s adventures in Wonderland have never before been told like this…with clowns, acrobats, jugglers, and musicians. When Alice searches for a way back home, she will meet the caterpillar, the white rabbit, and she will have to escape from the dreaded Queen of Hearts. You may think you know this classic story, but hold on to your hats, because this world premiere created by master clown Jeff Raz of Cirque Du Soleil for the Advanced Training Program of the Clown Conservatory and produced by Active Arts will be the wildest, craziest trip to Wonderland you’ve ever taken!” The show is performed from April 18 to May 3 at the Julia Morgan Center in Berkeley, California, and from May 9 to May 17 at the Front Row Theater in San Ramon, California.
Alice and Kitty
On June 15, The Oxford Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium will present a talk on Disney’s Alice, Hello Kitty’s Alice, and Carroll’s Alice: An Aspect of Children’s Cultures in the US, UK, and Japan by Yasuko Natsume of Tsuda College, Tokyo.
This talk examines American and Japanese animated film adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a means of accessing children’s cultures in the U.S., U.K., and Japan. Natsume’s paper focuses on Disney’s self-supporting, independent Alice (who stands in contrast to the majority of early Disney princesses) and Sanrio’s 1993 Hello Kitty™ version, in which Kitty, a Japanese symbol of cuteness, plays the part of Alice.
At a theater near you…
On March 31, NCM Fathom and MarQe Entertainment Inc. announced a series of New York Theatre Ballet performances to be shown exclusively in select movie theaters nationwide beginning this August. Six performances of dynamic chamber ballet classics will be presented including The Alice in Wonderland Follies. Tickets will be available beginning Friday, July 10, at www.FathomEvents.com.
Bloomsbury Auction
Bloomsbury Auctions’ Literature, Manuscripts and Modern First Editions sale on April 23 has quite a few Carrollian items: Lots 333, 772, 856, 1097, 1099, 1104, 1162, 1227, 1301, 1408, and 1409 include modern limited editions signed by illustrators such as John Vernon Lord and presentation copies of Euclid and His Modern Rivals and The Game of Logic.
But not the very best butter knife
“The Texas Radio Theatre Company performed this audio adaptation in November 2008 at the Dallas Public Library. On stage at the time, from left to right: Shannon Atkinson as Alice, David Grant as the DoorMouse [sic], Clark Hackney [who seems to be channeling Ed Wynn] as the Hatter and Reg Platt as the March Hare. Rich Frohlich is adding prerecorded sounds and Ken Raney is performing the live sounds, with the exception of David’s noise maker and Reg’s horn (or tea cup) .”
“Attack of Literacy” t-shirt
If you look carefully at Joshua Kemble’s very clever “Attack of Literacy” t-shirt, you can see Lewis Carroll (right behind Shakespeare, which seems appropriate).