ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Middle and Elementary School performance adapted from the play by James DeVita and based on the classic book Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Elementary and Middle School’s comedic production of Alice Through The Looking Glass opened on Saturday, June 7th.

The show opens with Alice, played by Juniper Pope, engaged in a chess game against a tough competitor: her kitten. Suddenly, the White Rabbit, played by Desmond Robinson, appears with a giant looking glass. Not questioning the bizarre turn of events, Alice blissfully steps through the mirror portal into a backward world.

Trying to get her bearings, Alice finds herself on a life-size chess board between the red and white queens, played by Naomi Orion and Sophie Marvin. The queens, eager for a distraction from their long-standing stalemate, encourage Alice to become a queen. To do this, she must complete a journey across the board to the eighth square where she will earn a crown and all the responsibilities that come with it.

Alice’s travels are filled with Lewis Carroll’s trademark nonsensical humor: an imaginative baseball game, a train full of camera-clicking tourists, guest appearances by a trio of opinionated flowers, the tedious Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, sword-fighting knights, and the infamous Humpty Dumpty.

Upon successfully making it to the eighth square, Alice discovers that she too can “believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast” and achieves her goal of becoming a queen. At that, she transforms back into herself: a young girl, wearing a sparkly tiara, playing a make-believe game of chess. 

CAST

White Rabbit...............................Desmond Robinson

Alice.......................................................Juniper Pope

Mother.....................................Brooklyn Ramlo-Reed

Red Queen..............................................Naomi Orion

White Queen.......................................Sophie Marvin

Red Pawn..........................................Bradley Stauffer

White Pawn........................................Trenton Avalos

Chess Pieces..........Florence Anderson, Ronan Cahill, Sasha Dronov, and Sky Jayasinha Gray

Daisy........................................................Ashley Aden

Lily................................................................Vicky Wu

Rose........................................................Yuwa Suzuki

Baseball Announcer 1....................Sky Jayasinha Gray

Baseball Announcer 2.........................Archer Sanders

Umpire...................................................Sasha Dronov

Vendor...........................................Florence Anderson

Tweedle Dee.................................................Ava Silver

Tweedle Dum........................................Audrey Bristol

Train Conductor.........................Liam Jayasinha Gray

Ticket Seller............................................Ronan Cahill

Passengers.....Florence Anderson and Sasha Dronov

Humpty Dumpty.................................Luke Robinson

Red Knight..................................OceanLee Hamilton

White Knight............................Clementine Lindman

CREW

Director..............................................Beth Eurell

Direction Support.....................Corey Orthmann

Play Adaptation...................................Beth Eurell

Sets....................Trish Rouelle, Corey Orthmann, Brett Horton, and the woodshop class

Props...................................................Beth Eurell

Costume Design................................Joelle Rothe

Technical Assistant.......................Jensen Barnes

Backstage Crew...................................Sofie Totpal

Makeup.....................Melissa Pope and Alice Ott