ALICE IN WONDERLAND - PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010 - ACT 5

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010

ACT 5



Alice appears on the stage. There is a little house in the middle and the white rabbit is standing next to it, nervously looking at his watch.

ALICE: Now I wonder who lives here...

WHITE RABBIT: Mary Ann! ?? that girl. Where did she put 'em? Mary Ann!

ALICE: The rabbit! Excuse me sir, but- but I’ve been trying to...

WHITE RABBIT: Why, Mary Ann! What are you doing out here?

ALICE: Mary Ann?

WHITE RABBIT: Don’t just stand there! Go go! Go get my gloves! I’m late!

ALICE: But late for what?

WHITE RABBIT: My gloves! At once, do you hear!

ALICE: Goodness. I suppose I’ll be taking orders from Dinah next. (she starts walking towards the house) Hmmm, now let me see. If I were a rabbit, where would I keep my gloves? (She sees a little box and opens I, she reads: T) Eat me? Oh! Thank you. I´m hungry. - Hmhm. Hmhm. Hmhmhmhmhmhm. Hmhmhmhmhmhm (she starts growing again) Oh no no, not again!

WHITE RABBIT: Oh! Mary Ann!... Help! No! No! Help!A monster! Help!

Suddenly Dodo appears.

WHITE RABBIT: A monster! A monster, Dodo! In my house, Dodo!

ALICE: Dodo...?

DODO: Steady old champ.Can't be as bad as all that you know.

WHITE RABBIT: Oh my poor roof and all my walls and... there it is!

DODO: By Jove! Jolly well??

WHITE RABBIT: Well, do something, Dodo!

DODO: Yes, indeed! Extraordinary situation, but eh...

WHITE RABBIT: But- but what?

DODO: But I have a very simple solution!

ALICE: Thank goodness!

WHITE RABBIT: Wha- wha- what is it?

DODO: Simply pull it out the chimney.

WHITE RABBIT: Yes, go- go ahead, go ahead! Pull it out!

DODO: Who? Me? Don’t be ridiculous! What we need is eh... a lizard with a ladder!

Suddenly Bill, the lizard, appears with a ladder.

WHITE RABBIT: Hmm? Oh! Bill! Bill! Eh, we need a lazzerd with a lizard, a lizard a bb...b... can you help us?

BILL: At your service, governor!

DODO: Here, my lad!. Have you ever been down a chimney?

BILL: Why governor, I’ve been down more chimneys...

DODO: Excellent, excellent. You just pop down the chimney, and take that monster out of there.

BILL: Righto, governor! Monster? Hoeaaaaah! No! No! ....

DODO: Bill, lad, you’re passing up a golden opportunity!

BILL: I am?

DODO: You can be famous!

BILL: I can?

DODO: Of course! There’s a brave lad! In you go now, old boy. Simply tie your tail around the monsters neck and drag it out!

BILL: But- but- but governor!

DODO: Good luck, Bill!

ALICE: Oh dear, this is serious! I simply must... oh! A garden! Perhaps if I eat something it will make me grow smaller...

WHITE RABBIT: Ahhhh! Oh, let go! Help!

ALICE: I’m sorry, but I must eat something!

WHITE RABBIT: Not me, you- you- you- you- you barbarian! Help! Monsters! Help! Ah! I’m late! Oh dear, I’m here, I should be there! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late! (He leaves the stage looking at his watch).

ALICE: Wait! Please wait! (She takes a carrot from the garden and starts eating it, she gets smaller.) Wait! Please! Just a minute! Oh, dear. (She goes after the rabbit leaving Dodo and Bill on the stage.)

DODO: Bill, this is incredible, no cooperation! Everybody leaves. I have an idea, Bill.

BILL: You have?

DODO: Yes,… Let´s burn the house! Do you have a match Bill?

END OF ACT 5

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010 - ACT 4

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010

ACT 4

We see the rabbit just leaving the forest turning a corner. In the middle there are two strange figures looking at the audience. We can hear Alice saying….

ALICE: Oh, don’t go away!

WHITE RABBIT: I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

Alice appears on the stage, the two strange men are now looking at her but they are standing still..

ALICE: Mister Rabbit! Oh, mister Rabbit! Oh dear, I’m sure he came this way. Do you suppose he could be hiding? Hmmm... not here. I wonder... No, I suppose he must have... Oh! Why, what peculiar figures! (She reads the names of the two men on their shirts) Tweedle Dee... and Tweedle Dum!

TWEEDLE DEE: If you think we’re wax-works, you should pay, you know!

TWEEDLE DUM: Contrariwise, if you think we’re alive you ought to speak to us!

DEE & DUM: That’s logic!

ALICE: Well, it’s been nice meeting you. Goodbye! (looking around searching for the rabbit).

DEE: You’re beginning backwards!

DUM: Aye, the first thing in a visit is to say: How do you do and shake hands. How do you do and shake hands and state your name and business.

DEE & DUM: That’s manners!

ALICE: Really? Well, my name is Alice and I’m following a white rabbit. So...

DEE: You can’t go yet!

DUM: No, the visit has just started!

ALICE: I’m very sorry...

DUM: Do you like to play hide-and-seek?

DEE: Or button-button, who’s got the button?

ALICE: No, thank you.

DEE: If you stay long enough we might have a battle!

ALICE: That's very kind of you, but I must be going.

DEE & DUM: Why?

ALICE: Because I am following a white rabbit!

DEE & DUM: Why?

ALICE: Well, I- I’m curious to know where he is going!

DUM: Ohhhh, she’s curious! Tsk! tsk! tsk! ts!...

DEE: The oysters were curious too, weren’t they?

DUM: Aye, and you remember what happened to them...

DEE & DUM: Poor things!

ALICE: Why? What did happen to the oysters?

DEE: Oh, you wouldn’t be interested.

ALICE: But I am!

DUM: Oh, no. You’re in much too much of a hurry!

ALICE: Well, perhaps I could have a little time...

DEE & DUM: you could? well...

DEE: ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’!

DUM: Or: ‘The story of the curious Oysters’!

DEE: The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might,. And this was odd, because it was the middle of the night.

DUM: The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking close at hand. The beach was white from side to side but much too full of sand.

The Walrus and the Carpenter appear, one next to the other…

CARPENTER: Mister Walrus, my brain begins to burke. We’ll sweep this clear in half a year, if you don't mind the work.'

WALRUS: Work? Uh, pff, brrrr! Uh, the time has come to talk of other things. Calloo, callay, no work today! We’re cabbages and kings! ... Oh, uhhh, oysters, come and walk with us. The day is warm and bright! A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, would be a sheer delight!

CARPENTER: Yes, and if we get hungry on the way, we’ll stop and uh... have a bite!

WALRUS: Hrmmmm!

DEE & DUM: But mother Oyster winked her eye and shook her heavy head. She knew too well this was no time to leave her oyster bed.

WALRUS: Yes, yes, of course, of course! But eh... haha! The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things. Calloo, callay, come run away! We’re the cabbages and kings! ... Hrmmm, well now, uh... let me see... Ah! A loaf of bread is what we chiefly need.

CARPENTER: How about some pepper and salt and vinegar, aye?

WALRUS: Oh yes, yes, splendid idea! Haha, very good indeed! Now, if you’re ready, oysters dear... haha... we can begin to feed.

DEE & DUM: Feed?

WALRUS: Oh yes, ahh, the time has come, my little friends, to talk of food and things!

CARPENTER: We’ll mix some all together in a sauce as good for kings. Callooh, callay, we’ll live today, like cabbages and kings!

WALRUS: I uh, weep for you, I -uh- oh, excuse me, I deeply sympathize. For I've enjoyed your company, oh, much more than you realize.

The Walrus and the Carpenter leave the stage, touching their stomachs and licking their lips with their tongues.

DEE & DUM: Mother Oyster called her girls but answer there came none. And this was scarcely odd, because, they had been eaten, every one! The end!

ALICE: That was a very sad story.

DUM: Aye, and there’s a moral to it.

ALICE: Oh yes, a very good moral, if you happen to be an oyster. Well, it’s been a very nice visit...

DEE & DUM: Another recitation...

ALICE: I’m sorry, but...

DEE & DUM: It’s titled ‘Father William’.

ALICE: But really, I’m... (and she starts leaving the stage, leaving the two strange figures alone).

DEE & DUM: First verse: You are old father William, the young man said and your hair has become very white…

END OF ACT 4

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010 - ACT 3

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010

ACT 3

Alice appears swimming in the sea. Close to her there is a Dodo and on his shoulder a parrot and a mouse, also swimming.

ALICE: Oh dear, I wish I hadn’t cried so much. I will drown in my own tears! (She sees a bird with a sailor´s appearance, a pipe in his mouth…)

DODO: Oh, the sailor’s life is the life for me, how I love to sail on the sea, and I never never ever do a thing about the weather for the weather never ever does a thing for me. Oh, a sailor’s life is a life for me, tiddle um dum pom pom dum de dee! (takes his telescope and looks around) And I never ne... Land ho, by Jove!

MOUSE: Where away, Dodo?

ALICE: Dodo?

DODO: Three points to starboard. Follow me, my friends! I´ll have you at port no time at all now, haha!

ALICE: Mister Dodo!

They leave the water and now the mouse starts to run in circles around Dodo.

ALICE: Please! Please help me! ... Um, pardon me, but uh, would you mind helping me? Please?

DODO: Forward, backward, inward, outward, come and join the chase! Nothing could be drier than a jolly caucus-race. Round and round and round we go, and dance for evermore, once we were behind but now we find we are be-forward, backward, inward, outward, come and join the chase! Nothing could be drier than a jolly caucus-race. You’ll never get dry that way!

ALICE: Get dry?

DODO: Have to run with the others! First rule of a caucus-race, you know!

ALICE: (starts running after the mouse) But how can I...

DODO: That’s better! Have you dry in no time now!

ALICE: No-one can ever get dry this way!

DODO: Nonsense! I am as dry as a bone already.

ALICE: Yes, but... (suddenly she sees the white rabbit hurrying and looking at his watch) The white rabbit! (she leaves the circle and starts walking after the rabbit) Mister Rabbit! Mi- mister Rabbit!

WHITE RABBIT: Oh, my goodness! I’m late! I’m late!

END OF ACT 3

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010 - ACT 2

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010

ACT 2



Alice appears in a room, sitting on the floor in a messy way. A bit confused she stands up and starts to clean her skirt.

ALICE: Well, after this I shall think nothing of falling downstairs! That was a long way, what if I had fallen right through the center of the earth... oh, and had come out the other side, where people walk upside down. (giggling) Oh, but that’s silly.

She starts looking around her and sees the rabbit just turning a corner…

WHITE RABBIT: Oh, my ears and whiskers, How late it´s getting!

ALICE: Oh, mister Rabbit! Wait! Please! (She sees a small door and tries to open it)

DOORKNOB: Ohhhhh!!

ALICE: OH! Oh, I beg your pardon.

DOORKNOB: Oh, oh, it’s quite all right. But you did give me quite a turn!

ALICE: You see, I was following...

DOORKNOB: Good! What can I do for you?

ALICE: Well, I’m looking for a white rabbit. So, um, if you don’t mind...

DOORKNOB: Uh? Oh! (He opens his mouth, which is supposed to be the keyhole and Alice looks though it)

ALICE: There he is! I simply must get through!

DOORKNOB: Sorry, you’re much too big. Simply impassible.

ALICE: You mean impossible?

DOORKNOB: No, impassible. Nothing is impossible! Why don’t you try the bottle on the table?

ALICE: Table? Oh!

DOORKNOB: Read the directions, and directly you’ll be directed in the right direction. (laughing).

ALICE: (takes the small bottle in her hand and reads…) ‘Drink me’. Hmmm, (thinking and talking to the audience) better look first. For if you drink too much from a bottle marked ‘poison’… sooner or later…

DOORKNOB: Beg your pardon?

ALICE: I was just giving myself some good advice. But...(She starts drinking, sip by sip) hmm, tastes like oh... cherry tart... custard... pineapple... roast turkey...(finishes her drink) Goodness! What did I do?

DOORKNOB: Ho ho ho ho! You almost went out like a candle!

ALICE: But look! I’m just the right size!

DOORKNOB: Oh, no use! Ha ha ha ha. I forgot to tell you, ho ho ho ho! I’m locked!

ALICE: Oh no!

DOORKNOB: Ha ha ha, but of course, uh, you’ve got the key, so...

ALICE : What key?

DOORKNOB: Now, don’t tell me you’ve left it up there on the table!

ALICE: (looking distressed) Oh, dear! What can I do?

DOORKNOB: Try the box, naturally.

ALICE: (Alice opens a box which is on the floor) Oh! ‘Eat me’. All right. But goodness knows what this will do... wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!

DOORKNOB: A little of that went a long way’! Ha ha ha ha!

ALICE: Well, I don’t think it’s so funny! (starting to sob) Now- now I will never get ou-out!

DOORKNOB: Oh, come on now. Crying won’t help.

ALICE: I know, but I- I- I just can’t stop!

DOORKNOB: Hey, hey you! Bwbwlwbbwlwbl! This won't do at all! You, you up there, stop! Stop, I say! Oh look! The bottle, the bottle...

Alice sees the bottle and drinks a sip. She gets smaller, opens the door and gets in.

END OF ACT 2

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010 - ACT 1

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PLAYSCRIPT - MAY 2010

ACT 1

Alice in Wonderland, how do you get to Wonderland?

Over the hill or underland, or just behind the tree?

When clouds go rolling by, they roll away and leave the sky.

Where is the land beyond the eye, the people can not see,where can it be?

Where do stars go, where is the grass that´s blue?

They must be somewhere in the sunny afternoon.

Alice in Wonderland, where is the path to Wonderland?

Over the hill or here or there, I wonder where.

ACT 1

Alice and her sister are in a garden. Her sister is teaching Alice history and she is reading aloud from a very big and old book. Alice is playing with her cat.They are both sitting under a tree.

SISTER: (Reading ) Christopher Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic Ocean began a European effort at exploration and colonization …(looking at Alice because of the noise she was making)… Alice..!

ALICE: Hmmm…? I´m listening. (and she continues playing with her cat, giggling).

SISTER: …of the Western Hemisphere. While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492 …(Alice is making noise again)… he did not actually reach the South American mainland until …(looking angrily and impatiently at Alice) Alice,! Will you kindly pay attention to your history lesson?

ALICE: I´m sorry, but what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

SISTER: My dear child, there are a great many good books in this world without pictures.

ALICE: In this world perhaps. But in my world, the books would be nothing but pictures (looking up at the sky and imagining herself in another world).

SISTER: Your world? What nonsense are you saying my child?

ALICE: Nonsense?

SISTER: Yes, nonsense, and now Alice, I want you to pay attention to your History lesson. This is very important for your future! (and she continues reading aloud to her sister) his third voyage in 1498. Instead, he made landfall on an island in the Bahamas Archipelago that he named San Salvador while trying to find a sea route to India, hence the indigenous inhabitants being called "Indians". Likewise, he was not the earliest...

ALICE: (while her sister is reading, Alice starts to talk to her cat…) That´s it Dinah! (very excited) If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn´t (giggling excitedly)…And the other way round, what it is, it wouldn´t be, and what it wouldn´t be, it would. You see?

DINAH: Meow!

ALICE: In my world, you wouldn´t say meow, you would say ‘Yes, miss Alice!’

DINAH: Meow!

ALICE: Oh, but you would! You would be just like people, Dinah, and all the other animals too. Why, in my world… Cats and rabbits would live in beautiful little houses, and be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers. … because my world would be a wonderland…

(A rabbit with a waistcoat appears)

DINAH: meow, meow, meow!

ALICE: Oh Dinah! It´s just a rabbit with a waistcoat…

(The rabbit takes a watch out of his waistcoat pocket and looks at it)

ALICE: and a watch!

WHITE RABBIT: Oh my fur and whiskers! I´m late, I´m late, I´m late! (and hurries on)

ALICE: (standing up) Now this is curious! What could a rabbit be late for? ...Please sir!

WHITE RABBIT: I´m late, I´m late, for a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye, hello! I´m late, I´m late, I´m late!

ALICE: It must be awfully important, like a party or something! Mister Rabbit! Wait!

She runs across the field after him, and fortunately was just in time to see him pop down a large rabbit-hole.

WHITE RABBIT: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I’m overdue. I’m really in a stew. No time to say goodbye or hello! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

ALICE: (standing in front of the rabbit hole) My, what a peculiar place to have a party!

DINAH: Meow!

ALICE: (trying to get into the hole) You know, Dinah, we really shouldn’t...uhh...uhh...be doing this... After all, we haven’t been invited! And curiosity often leads to troubl – l – l – e – e – e! (she falls into the whole) Goodbye, Dinah! Goodbye! ... Oh!

END OF ACT 1

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - LEAFLET - MAY 2010

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

LEAFLET - MAY 2010

The EOI of Almeria presents:

NO LAUGHING MATTER THEATRE COMPANY

In

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

El grupo de teatro 'No Laughing Matter' presenta este final de curso 2009-2010 la obra ‘Alice in Wonderland’ que ya representó hace dos años. Somos ya 22 actores amateurs con muchas ganas de pasarlo bien, aprender y disfrutar haciendo teatro. Esta es la segunda obra que representamos este año académico.

Queremos dedicar esta obra a dos compañeros que por razones personales no han podido participar en la obra pero forman parte del grupo desde hace años: Antonio David Berbel García y Yolanda Martín García. Queremos también agradecer al Equipo Directivo del Instituto Celia Viñas y al Ayuntamiento de Roquetas de Mar su apoyo a la hora de poder representar la obra en ambos lugares.

La obra que hemos elegido está considerada como uno de los máximos exponentes de la literatura universal tanto infantil como para adultos. En esta obra aparecen algunos de los personajes más famosos de Carroll, como el Conejo Blanco, el Sombrerero Loco, el Gato de Cheshire, Los gemelos Tweedle Dee y Dum, La Oruga o la Reina de Corazones quienes han cobrado importancia suficiente para ser reconocidos fuera del mundo de Alicia.

INTRODUCTION

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a work of literary nonsense written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, considered a classic example of the genre and of English literature in general. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantastic realm populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre.

The book is commonly referred to by the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland, an alternative title popularized by the numerous stage, film and television adaptations of the story produced over the years. Alice was a publishing sensation, beloved by children and adults alike. Among its first avid readers were young Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. The book has never been out of print. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 125 languages, including Esperanto and Faroese. There have now been over a hundred editions of the book, as well as countless adaptations in other media, especially theatre and film.

FAMOUS LINES AND EXPRESSIONS

The term "Wonderland", from the title, has entered the language and refers to a marvellous imaginary place, or else a real-world place that one perceives to have dreamlike qualities.

"Down the Rabbit-Hole", the Chapter 1 title, has become a popular term for going on an adventure into the unknown. In computer gaming, a "rabbit hole" may refer to the initiating element that drives the player to enter the game.

Arguably, the most famous quote is used when the Queen of Hearts screams "Off with her head!" at Alice (and everyone else she feels slightly annoyed with). Possibly Carroll here was echoing a scene in Shakespeare's Richard III where Richard demands the execution of Lord Hastings, crying "Off with his head!"

Three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, for they accidentally planted a white-rose tree which the Queen of Hearts hates. Red roses symbolized the English House of Lancaster, while white roses were the symbol for their rival House of York. Therefore, this scene contains a hidden allusion to the War of the Roses.

CAST

ALICE ……………………......………… Mª DEL MAR MURILLO DE LAS HERAS

WHITE RABBIT .................... ADOLFO ROSILLO HERRERA

TWEEDLE DEE ……………………….. JUAN JOSE HERNANDEZ BAÑOS

TWEEDLE DUM ………………….……. EDUARDO JESUS GARCIA ROJAS

CATERPILLAR .......................ALEJANDRO GARCIA SEGURA

DODO............................. ..ENRIQUE SEGURA RECHE

MAD HATTER .......................SIMÓN RODRIGUEZ CRUZ

MARCH HARE .......................HEIKE DIAZ ORTEGA

QUEEN OF HEARTS ................REMEDIOS MATUTE LÓPEZ

ALICE'S SISTER …………………...……MARIA DEL MAR MARQUEZ MADRID

DOORKNOB .........................ALEJANDRO GARCIA SEGURA

WALRUS ............................ALEJANDRO GARCIA SEGURA

CARPENTER ……………………………..MARIA FÉRRIZ NÚÑEZ

CHESHIRE CAT……………………..….SOFIA CAMACHO ESTRADA

BILL THE LIZARD ……………………. FRANCISCO JOSÉ GÓMEZ SIERRA

ROSE ...............................ROSANA SIERRA BARRANCO

SNAPDRAGON ………………………… MARIOLA BERENGUEL MARTIN

MARGUERITE …………………………. ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ LÓPEZ

VIOLET…………………………….……. MIRIAM HERNÁNDEZ FERNÁNDEZ

TULIP ………………………….……….. MARIA DEL MAR LÓPEZ GARCIA

ROSIE ……………………………………. ISABEL GÓMEZ SIERRA

KING OF HEARTS .………......... ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ LÓPEZ

THE ACE ……………………….……… JUAN JOSE HERNANDEZ BAÑOS

THE TWO ………………………….…..EDUARDO JESUS GARCIA ROJAS

THE THREE …………………….……. MARIA FÉRRIZ NUNEZ

DORMOUSE …………….......……. JAVIER GÓMEZ SIERRA

SEASTAR ..........................REMEDIOS MATUTE LÓPEZ

SEAHORSE ……………………………. SIMÓN RODRIGUEZ CRUZ

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS….....MIGUEL ANGEL DEL AGUILA HERNÁNDEZ

DIRECTOR ........................ROSANA SIERRA BARRANCO

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - POSTER - MAY 2010

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

POSTER - MAY 2010

A CHRISTMAS CAROL - PICTURES IN CELIA VIÑAS HIGH SCHOOL AND ESCUELA MUNICIPAL DE MÚSICA ROQUETAS DE MAR -- DEC 2009 -

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

PICTURES IN CELIA VIÑAS HIGH SCHOOL - ALMERÍA
AND ESCUELA MUNICIPAL DE MÚSICA - ROQUETAS DE MAR

DEC 2009

PREPARING OURSELVES

ACT 1

 ACT 2 

ACT 3

ACT 4

ACT 5

ACT 6

ACT 7

ACT 8

SALUTE