David Schaefer, a founding member and past president of the LCSNA, began the meeting by giving a succinct overview of Alice in films, starting with the 1903 Cecil Hepworth production at Walton on the Thames in England, through the 1910 Edison company film and up to the Alice films of the 1930s, including the first “talkie” version, made in... [read full post]

Our Santa Fe, New Mexico, meeting began with a brief talk by Theaterwork’s artistic director, David Olson, on their first performance of Lewis Carroll’s juvenile operetta La Guida di Bragia since the young Charles Lutwidge Dodgson staged it for his family. Together with LCSNA’s multi-talented Jonathan Dixon, Olson talked about the marionette play we would see in... [read full post]