The rabbit hole here is a hoop and Carroll’s joke on the story being a yarn actually turns into a rope swing for Alice. The circus tricks energize and echo the whimsical script, which is filled with Carroll’s own language tricks and puns. “Something that I think is so cool that is happening in theater as a whole right now is we are expanding a lot of what we think theater is or what it looks like, what storytelling is, who comes to see plays and what that even means,” says Hernández. It is in many ways a sort of vertical storytelling, using the space above the actors and audience in new ways. And we don’t really talk about it enough.”Ĭatlin’s version was crafted in 2005 and calls for just five actors - including two alternating as Alice due to the physical demands of the role. “Here’s the magic that can happen in your neighborhood, in your city. “You don’t see a lot of regional theater on public television,” said Silberstein. The 95-minute PBS broadcast of “Lookingglass Alice” is accompanied by a short documentary about the company, with an appearance from David Schwimmer, a founding member who put his own money into the fledgling troupe. Carroll’s stories so captivated them that they named themselves after his book “Through the Looking-Glass,” the sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” It’s adapted and directed by founding ensemble member David Catlin, who was among a group of Northwestern students who created the theater company in 1988. “Lookingglass Alice” is a show where folding chairs fly out of picnic baskets, the White Knight rides a unicycle, characters bounce on massive balls and Alice has a tea party with an audience member - pinkies up, don’t forget. “It’s always been a very physical theater company and not in the kind of rock ‘n’ roll, let’s throw things around, but how do we really inhabit our physical being to elicit emotion as well as tell a story effectively?” “Lookingglass has always wanted to embody feeling and idea through physicality,” said Scott Silberstein, an artistic associate at the theater and co-founder of HMS Media, which filmed the show. The show “Lookingglass Alice” from the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago has been a local treat for decades, but this year gets national attention with a broadcast on PBS starting on Friday. (Liz Lauren/Lookingglass Theatre Company via AP) The production will broadcast on PBS on Friday. And it’s honest and raw and silly and all of the human things that we sometimes hide from - the childish wonder within ourselves, the fear of making mistakes.” This image released by the Lookingglass Theatre Company shows Molly Hernàndez as Alice during a performance of "Lookingglass Alice" in Chicago. “Wonderland is so fantastical, as is circus. “It’s a beautiful combination,” says Molly Hernández, who plays Alice. The characters soar on ropes, make tumble passes, balance on each other, throw teacakes, dance to salsa and play musical instruments. So begins one of the most innovative and thrilling retellings of Lewis Carroll’s legacy, this time infused with the physicality of circus. NEW YORK (AP) - The first indication that you’re not seeing a run-of-the-mill stage production of Alice in Wonderland is when the White Rabbit appears suspended 30 feet over the stage and does a somersault through a hoop. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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