A Trapeze-Flying Alice. The Queen of Hearts On Stilts.
A Circus-Like Twist On A Classic Tale
By David Catlin
Based on Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Directed by David Catlin
ARCHBOLD THEATRE at SYRACUSE STAGE
Running Dates: Feb 24 – March 14
(Syracuse, NY)-In your wildest imaginings, you’ve never imagined Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatic and theatrical daring, Alice, Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and all of Lewis Carroll’s enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike.
Lookingglass Alice runs February 24-March 14 at Syracuse Stage. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.SyracuseStage.org, by phone at 315-443-3275 or in person at 820 East Genesee Street. Lookingglass Alice is sponsored by Carrier Corporation and POMCO Group. Media sponsors are Clear Channel Communications, Syracuse.com and Urban CNY. Syracuse Stage season sponsors are The Post-Standard and Time Warner Cable.
Lookingglass Alice premiered at Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago on February 13, 2005 and was developed in affiliation with the Actor’s Gymnasium Circus and Performing Arts Schools. Since Lookingglass Alice’s premier in 2005, it has had nearly 300 performances all over the country.
Director/Creator David Catlin found a deep connection between his experiences in fatherhood and the story Charles Dodgson, who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, wrote for Alice Liddell and her sisters. “It was Charles Dodgson telling the real Alice to slow down. Don’t grow up so fast,” said Catlin. The idea helped Catlin structure the show to map Alice’s journey from a girl to a queen.
“I took the idea of the chessboard that Lewis Carroll gives us in Through the Looking-Glass. Alice starts as a pawn and throughout the story she can become a queen; she can become a grown-up. Each of our squares in our story is a different story from either of the two books and represents in a way, sometimes in a very subtle way that the audience may not recognize, growing up.”
Throughout its performances, Lookingglass Alice has garnered public and critical praise. The Chicago Tribune reported that the show is “A free-wheeling, circus-loving, theatrical riff on Lewis Carroll’s classic yarns,” and the Chicago Sun-Times says it is “Endlessly witty, rashly whimsical and awash in nerve-jangling daring.”
The shows attract audiences of all ages. “It’s a show that seems to appeal to children as young as 5 years old. Sometimes even younger,” notes Catlin. “We have lots of audience members who show up who are in their 70s without kids immediately in their life who seem to enjoy it and want to come back again and bring their peers as well.”
Hollywoodchicago.com reported in July 2008, “It’s still a story that audiences of any background and age can enjoy. … By the end of the night, so many out-of-the-way things happen that you surely begin to believe that nothing is truly impossible.”
SPECIAL EVENTS
∙Thur 2/25 @ 6:30 p.m. – LGBT Pride Night
Get IN with the OUT crowd – a pre-show reception
∙Fri 2/26 – LIVE in the Sutton Series
Come for the show, stay for the music
∙Sun 2/28 – Actor Talkback Series
Q&A with the cast following the Sunday evening performance
∙Sat 3/6 @ 3pm – Welch Allyn Signed Interpreted Performance Series In Memory of Susan Thompson
Signed matinee at 3:00 p.m.
∙Wed 3/10 – Wednesday @ 1 Lecture Series
Interesting and informative, at 1pm before the Wednesday matinee
*Special event programs are additionally funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the National Organization for the American Theatre.
TICKETS:
Onstage Seating: $31-$48
Single Tickets: $24-$48
Children (under 18): $16
Under 40: $20 all tickets, all performances.
Rush: $15-$25 general public, $10 with valid student ID, subject to availability
*Rush tickets available day of performance, by phone ($5 fee) or in person (no fee)
*Discounts available for seniors, students, groups and subscribers
Online: http://www.SyracuseStage.org
Call: 315-443-3275
In person: 820 East Genesee Street
Groups (10 or more): 315-443-9844
