Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass

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Porcupine's Quill, 1994 - Drama - 150 pages

Alice Through the Looking-Glass was originally commissioned by Stratford Festival Foundation under the artistic directorship of David William. The play opened July 10, 1994 at the Avon Theatre.

This edition also contains illustrations by Sir John Tenniel as they appeared in the original (1872) Macmillan edition of Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there.

When Alice passes through into the Looking Glass World, she suddenly finds herself in a bizarre and chaotic chess game that leads her on an unforgettable adventure. She encounters a dizzying array of extraordinary characters that include talking flowers, Kings and Queens, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Humpty Dumpty himself. This brand new stage adaptation by one of Canada's most beloved authors and playwrights was a feature production of the 1994 Stratford Festival season. In addition to the text of the play, James Reaney provides the reader with background information and notes as well as useful suggestions for those wishing to stage their own production of Lewis Carroll's classic tale.

From inside the book

 

Common terms and phrases

ALICE I'm afraid Alice meets ALICE Pause Alice takes Alice's Bandersnatch borogoves brillig Brook sound Carpenter Carroll's cast chess game chess pieces CHORUS course Crow cut-outs Daisy dear Douglas Rain dream Eighth Square eyes FAWN fishes Flowers Fourth Square gimble glass GNAT goes Graham Harley gyre Haigha hand Hatta head hold horse Humpty Dumpty Jabberwocky James Reaney King's Kitty Kt-K Lewis Carroll Liddell Lion look Looking-glass House Looking-glass Land Looking-Glass world magic mean Messenger mimsy Monster move never outgrabe Oysters play plum-cake poetry pudding Queen Alice railway Red King Red Knight RED QUEEN ROSE round running scene shake shawl Sheep slithy stage story Stratford suppose talk tell there's things TIGER LILY toves tree Tweedledum and Tweedledee UNICORN wabe wake walk Walrus WHITE KING WHITE KNIGHT White Pawn WHITE QUEEN wonder Wonderland wood workshop

About the author (1994)

James Reaney was born on a farm in South Easthope near Stratford, Ontario in 1926. He has won the Governor General's Award three times for his poetry, though he is perhaps better-known as a playwright, especially for his landmark Donnelly trilogy (1974-75). Reaney's theatrical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass returned to the stage at Stratford in the summer of 1996.His work includes: The Red Heart, poems, 1949; A suit of Nettles, poems, 1958; Twelve Letters to a Small Town, poems, 1962; The Killdeer & Other Plays, drama, 1962; Colours in the Dark, drama, 1969; Collected Poems, 1972; Listen to the Wind, drama, 1972; The Donnellys, a trilogy of plays, 1974-75; Baldoon (with C.H. Gervais), 1976; The Boy With an R in His Hand, young adult, 1980; Take the Big Picture, young adult, 1986; Alice Through the Looking-Glass, stage adaptation, 1994. James Reaney died in 2008.

Bibliographic information

TitleLewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass
Canadian electronic library: Books collection
AuthorJames Reaney
PublisherPorcupine's Quill, 1994
ISBN0889841470, 9780889841475
Length150 pages
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Drama / American / General
Drama / Canadian
Juvenile Nonfiction / Drama
  
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