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Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass

adapted by Lindsay Price from Lewis Carroll

Alice is back in Wonderland and things are more confusing than ever – Flowers talk, the White Queen cries before she pricks her finger, and there’s a life-sized chess game going on. Alice wants to play, but mostly wants to be queen. Will she make it to the eighth square?

A fantastical physical journey for both actor and audience.

A great companion to Alice by the same author.

Comedy Choral Work Classical Adaptation Movement-based Young Audiences

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Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

About 35 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
13 Characters
3 M | 3 F | 7 Any Gender, + Wonderland Ensemble
Simple Set
38 pages

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Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.

13 Characters
3 M, 3 F, 7 Any Gender, + Wonderland Ensemble

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

Alice [F] 162 lines
White Queen [F] 31 lines
Red Queen [F] 37 lines
White King [M] 21 lines
White Knight [M] 16 lines
Red Knight [M] 5 lines
Humpty Dumpty [A] 21 lines
Tweedledum & Tweedledee [A] 22, 16 lines
Haiga & Hatta [A] 7, 1 lines
Lion [A] 7 lines
Unicorn [A] 11 lines

Wonderland Ensemble, from which comes the following:
Flowers: Tiger-lily, Violet, Rose, Daisies (3), Larkspur
Passengers: Guard, Goat, Horse, White Paper, Beetle
The Wood
Sheep
The Curiosities in the Shop
All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men
Waiter

Praise for Through the Looking-Glass

Paul Cooke
Haileybury International School Tianjin 天津黑利伯瑞国际学校
This was a wonderful play on so many levels. The script was fun and funny and the simplicity of the staging made life very easy.
Beth Goodwin
Central High School Drama Club
We had a lot of fun creating the Wonderland characters, figuring movement & scene changes, and developing all the other characters/scenes. This was an amazing play to perform, it gave my students such an opportunity to flex their creative muscles.
Kaitlyn Norton
Mountainside Middle School
the actors had fun with it and the characters' lines were funny.

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