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Audience Guide A NOISE WITHIN’S 2019-2020 REPERTORY THEATRE SEASON AUDIENCE GUIDE By Eva Le Gallienne & Florida Friebus Adapted from Lewis Carroll Directed by Stephanie Shroyer Edu Photos: Erika Soto by Daniel Reichert. TABLE OF CONTENTS Character Map . 3 Synopsis . 4 About the Author: Lewis Carroll . 5 About the Adaptors: Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus . 7 Timeline: The History of Alice in Wonderland . 8 The Victorian Era: The Historical Backdrop of Alice in Wonderland . 9 Notes on Alice in Wonderland from Adaptor Eva Le Gallienne . 10 A Whole New World: Alice in Wonderland and Developmental Psychology . 11 Alice in Wonderland and Development . 12 The Role of Games in Alice in Wonderland . 13 Fantastical Nonsense: Nonsense Literature and Alice in Wonderland . 15 Alice and the Hero’s Journey . 17 Themes . 19 Curiosity and Imagination . 19 Logic and Madness . 19 Transformation and Loss of Innocence . 19 Ken Booth Lighting Designer . 21 Josh Grondin Sound Design . 22 Additional Resources . 23 A NOISE WITHIN’S EDUCATION PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY: Ann Peppers Foundation The Green Foundation Capital Group Companies Kenneth T . and Michael J . Connell Foundation Eileen L . Norris Foundation The Dick and Sally Roberts Ralph M . Parsons Foundation Coyote Foundation Steinmetz Foundation The Jewish Community Foundation 3 A NOISE WITHIN 2019/20 REPERTORY SEASON | Spring 2020 Audience Guide Alice in Wonderland CHARACTER MAP White Rabbit Mouse Dodo Constantly worried and slightly late to Meets Alice swimming in a pool Friends everything, he is a servant and herald to of her tears . He promises to help with Mouse . Lory the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts . her dry off by rattling off the Proposes a driest information that he can . Caucus Caucus Race . Race participant . Duchess Frog-Footman Eaglet Disgraced because of a past fight Footman for the Queen Caterpillar Caucus Race with the Queen of Hearts . The of Hearts . Invites the Discusses change with Alice and offers participant . Queen of Hearts has ordered her Duchess to play croquet . her a mushroom to help her get to the execution . She is concerned with size she would like to be . finding the morals of all situations . Alice Cook A seven-year-old with a grand imagination . She steps Works for the Duchess . through a looking glass and enters into Wonderland . Mad Hatter Cheshire Cat March Hare Dormouse Co-host of the tea party Alice Wonderland creature who has Wonderland creature and Sleepy Wonderland creature joins . He recently angered Time the power to appear and vanish . friend of the Mad Hatter and friend of the March by not keeping the proper beat He advises Alice that everyone and the Dormouse . Co-host Hare and Mad Hatter . during a musical performance for in Wonderland is mad . of the tea party Alice joins . the Queen of Hearts . Testifies in the Knave of Hearts’ trial . Two, Five, and Seven of Spades Gardeners for the Queen of Hearts . Red Queen Introduces Alice to Knave of Hearts The King of Hearts Wonderland’s chessboard . Member of the Married to the The Queen of Hearts Advises Alice to travel Queen of Hearts’ Queen of Hearts . Temperamental queen who is quick through the chess squares of court . He stands trial Presides over the to order that others be beheaded . Wonderland and promises that after he is accused trial of the Married to the King of Hearts . when Alice reaches the eighth of stealing tarts . Knave of Hearts . square, Alice will be a queen . Guard Railroad guard who chides Alice for not having a ticket for the train that travels from the first square to the fourth square . Humpty Dumpty White Queen Sheep The egg that the Sheep sold to Alice . Tweedledee and Surly and self-assured, he sits high Tweedledum A queen Alice meets on her Owner of a shop journey through the squares . Alice visits on her on a wall, confident that should he Twins who live in the fourth fall, all the king’s horses and all the square . Together they recite She “lives backwards,” that is, journey through king’s men will put him back together the poem of "the Walrus and she knows what will happen in the squares . She the Carpenter" for Alice, a the future . She offers to hire sells Alice an egg . again . He lives in the sixth square . poem full of moral ambiguity . Alice as a companion . The White Knight A clumsy knight who has trouble staying on his horse . He lives in the seventh square . 4 A NOISE WITHIN 2019/20 REPERTORY SEASON | Spring 2020 Audience Guide Alice in Wonderland SYNOPSIS At exactly seven-and-a-half years old, Alice has an active and vivid imagination . One afternoon, as she plays chess with her cat, Dinah, she begins to describe one of her latest imaginations—an idea she calls the Looking- Glass House . The rooms in the Looking-Glass House look much like the rooms in Alice’s current house, only they appear reversed . Alice remarks that she is going to pretend that the entrance into the house is through the looking glass hung in her drawing room . As she describes the entrance into the new house, the actual looking-glass in the drawing room morphs into a portal, and Alice steps “Mad Tea Party” by John Tenniel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) . through it into a new world . As soon as she steps into the new realm, Alice notices a meets the Mock Turtle and hears what the turtle has to small door . Near the door, there is a table on which sits say . However, the Mock Turtle’s story is cut short when a vial with a tag that says, “Drink Me .” At her current the White Rabbit enters to share news that a trial is height, Alice is too tall to fit through the door . Desperate beginning in the court . The Knave of Hearts has been to explore the garden beyond the door, Alice drinks from accused of eating some tarts that did not belong to him, the vial in the hopes that it will help her get to the right and he is on trial for his life . size to enter the garden . As soon as she drinks, Alice The trial is full of antics, and the lack of logic during the begins to change sizes . Eventually, once she becomes the trial baffles and frustrates Alice . Finally, Alice proclaims right size to fit through the door, she realizes that she that the trial is nonsense . Because of the outburst, the has left the key to the door on top of the table where Queen of Hearts orders that Alice be beheaded . Before she found the vial . Frustrated at her predicament, Alice the Queen’s guards can catch her though, Alice escapes begins to cry, and her tears pool into a large body of the courtroom . water . Alice begins to swim in her tears and as she does so, she encounters the Mouse . He promises to dry her On the run, Alice ends up in a realm that looks like a off by reciting the driest information that he knows . Once giant chessboard . There, she meets the Red Queen ashore, the Mouse introduces Alice to the Dodo, the who advises Alice to travel through the squares of Lory, and the Duck . the chessboard . The Red Queen lets Alice know that once she reaches the eighth square on the board, she After witnessing a caucus race - a nonsensical game that will become a queen . Alice decides to follow the Red satires political races - between the Mouse, the Lory, the Queen’s advice and sets out on a journey through the Duck, and the Dodo, Alice begins to explore Wonderland chessboard squares . on her own . Her exploration leads to encounters with various mystical creatures and characters such as an In each square of her journey, Alice enters a different enigmatic Caterpillar, a Frog-Footman, a disgraced realm of Wonderland and encounters the eccentric Duchess, and a vanishing Cheshire Cat . As she interacts characters who live there . The catalogue of characters with Wonderland’s inhabitants, Alice begins to realize Alice meets include a strict railroad guard, the perplexing that this new world operates upon a very different set of twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the voyeuristic White logic and natural laws than her world does . Eventually, Queen, a surly sheep, the irritable Humpty Dumpty, and Alice finds herself at a tea party with the Mad Hatter, the the confused White Knight . March Hare, and the Dormouse . At this party, Alice learns Finally, Alice reaches the eighth square of the board about the Queen of Hearts and the brutal way in which and is crowned Queen and begins to rule alongside she rules the land . the Red and White Queens . The queens decide to When Alice leaves the tea party, she finds herself in throw a banquet in honor of Alice . As the characters the Queen of Hearts’ garden . The Queen of Hearts of Wonderland toast to Alice’s health, Alice becomes invites Alice to a game of croquet in which upside-down overwhelmed and proclaims that she cannot stand flamingos are used as mallets . Alice has some trouble Wonderland any longer . Suddenly, everything around playing with these mallets, but the game is short-lived her vanishes, and Alice wakes up . She is back in her own as the Queen of Hearts quickly insists that the Gryphon, home with her cat, Dinah . Her adventure, it seems, was one of her courtiers, introduce Alice to the Mock Turtle, all a dream . ♦ a dour turtle with a self-proclaimed grim life story . Alice 5 A NOISE WITHIN 2019/20 REPERTORY SEASON | Spring 2020 Audience Guide Alice in Wonderland ABOUT THE AUTHOR: LEWIS CARROLL Lewis Carroll was born on January 27, 1832 as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Daresbury, Cheshire, England .
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