Arden Theatre Company presents
Lookingglass Theatre Company's
Lookingglass Alice
In association with Actors Gymnasium
Adapted and Directed by David Catlin
May 10 – June 10, 2007
Lookingglass Alice will whisk you away to a Wonderland ruled by a larger than life Red Queen where Alice truly defies gravity and Humpty Dumpty actually falls from his perilous ledge. Audiences will be mesmerized by Lookingglass' signature style of visual storytelling filled with daring theatricality and astonishing acrobatics. Combining witty word play, madcap mischief and fantastical flights of aerial fancy, Lewis Carroll's spectacularly surreal classics are brought vividly to life in this wildly imaginative production reminiscent of Cirque du Soleil. The entire theater becomes Alice's stage as she navigates a chessboard of "curioser and curioser" characters - a juggling Mad Hatter, acrobatic hedgehogs, a unicycle-riding White Knight and a host of others - who appear from above, below and everywhere in between.
The Arden is located at 40 N. 2nd Street, Old City Philadelphia. For tickets call 215-922-1122 or visit www.ardentheatre.org. This play was written for adults but Lookingglass Alice is appropriate for the older (10 and up), more theatre-savvy child as well.