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AFTER LEWIS CARROLL COMPOSER ALAN JOHN LIBRETTIST ANDREW UPTON CONDUCTOR RICHARD GILL DIRECTOR MICHAEL KANTOR SET COSTUME AND PUPPET DESIGNER PETER CORRIGAN LIGHTING DESIGNER PAUL JACKSON DRAMATURGE MARYANNE LYNCH MUSICAL PREPARATION DAVID MCSKIMMING ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR NICHOLAS CARTER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ANNA TREGLOAN CAST KANEN BREEN MARGARET HAGGART DAVID HOBSON SUZANNE JOHNSTON GARY ROWLEY DIMITY SHEPHERD "I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry. In this unprecedented rendering of a much-loved classic, Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera produce an event as unique as the material at its heart. On a boating trip with seven year old Alice Liddell (pictured), Carroll gifted her with the fantastic story which would soon be indelibly associated with her name - a gift that would re-cast her as a pawn in the fantastic underworld of The Looking Glass. This glass is as much kaleidoscope as mirror, where space and time are refracted, splintering into chaos as rhyming flowers, roaring royals and reluctant foodstuffs wage war on sense and sensibility. While beneath it all stretches the long shadow of this mad world’s creator, Master of Divinity, Lewis Carroll. As the real and imaginary become entwined, Director, Michael Kantor and Conductor, Richard Gill lead you on a voyage through a vivid musical world created by leading theatre and opera composer, Alan John (Eighth Wonder, Hedda Gabler). From a libretto by Andrew Upton (Co-Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company), head-spinning puns and philosophical conundrums are conjured by a stellar cast performing some of the most memorable characters in the English language. And at its centre stands Carroll himself - the writer and photographer – whose twinned passions he employed to freeze the object of his affection, where age and memory could not work their ways. Is this what Alice comes to discover in her looking glass: that her image, perhaps, was never her own? "I mean," she said, "that one can’t help growing older." "One can’t, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven." Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll  A Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera Commission in association with Opera Australia Other Season One ‘08 shows Find out more Victorian Opera www.victorianopera.com.au Ticket and session information SESSION TIMES TICKET PRICES Malthouse Education Teachers can make discounted bookings for their students to all Malthouse theatre season shows. See the School Bookings page. For more information contact Meg Upton, Education Program Manager, or Mark Doggett, Education Program Assistant on 03 9685 5165 or education@malthousetheatre.com.au Getting to the Malthouse FIND US Other information Through The Looking Glass will be performed in the Merlyn Theatre. Merlyn Theatre seating is reserved. |
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Ari Wegner Pictured: Alice Liddell, Courtesy Of Morris L. Parish Collection. Princeton University Library |
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• READ THE LIBRETTO BY ANDREW UPTON HERE |
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