Welcome to our worlds

We wanted to explore different ways of making theatre via Zoom that the audience can experience at their own pace, using techniques of toy and puppet theatre to create something digital. We’ve chosen Alice in Wonderland as our unifying theme, riffing on scenes from the classic story and imagining them as different rooms in an apartment building that you can visit at will. Alice offers an episodic structure that suits this apartment building approach as well as dreamlike and playful images and storylines that suit puppetry, toy theatre, and surreal elements of design.

 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, released under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was illustrated by John Tenniel and published in 1865. The stories were inspired by young Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean at Christ Church, Oxford, and have exploded into a massive cultural phenomenon in years since. Elements of Alice’s story like falling down a rabbit hole, the cheshire cat, the Red Queen and her playing card knights, and of course the mad tea party pop up in popular culture all over the place, and the story itself is a common framework for stories about experiencing something surreal and different, where a character stumbles into a whole new world. 

 

We have all stumbled into a world that feels a bit surreal and unfamiliar, and we hope our topsy-turvy apartments bring some brightness to you.