alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass

With her we chase after Britt Lauer’s fretful, panicky White Rabbit, who’s always bellowing about lost time with positively religious zeal.īy no means an exhaustive adaptation of either book (there’s no Caterpillar or Cheshire Cat, for example), Roy’s immersive new adaptation takes characters and scenes from both and draws especially heavily from “Looking-Glass.”Īlan Coyne is an animated and ever-amusing presence as the cringing, anxious Mad Hatter and a huffy, imperious Humpty Dumpty. She makes a perfect point person for all the tomfoolery, with indefatigable curiosity and enough self-assurance to push back against all the twisted logic and lunacy she’s faced with. Our Alice is Regina Léon, brimming with youthful enthusiasm and understandable befuddlement. (Another run is planned for late September in Saratoga.) In We Players’ “Adventures with Alice,” adapted and directed by founding artistic director Ava Roy, we follow Alice through the verdant lands of Golden Gate Park into one bizarre encounter after another. Along the way the audience encounters larger-than-life characters enacting familiar scenes, often adapted from Shakespeare or ancient epics.Ĭarroll’s novels “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass” similarly take their titular heroine on a tangled journey stumbling into all kinds of strange wonders. The San Francisco troupe specializes in site-specific theater that usually involves a lot of walking from place to place in parks and other picturesque settings.

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” books are a perfect match for We Players.

Alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass