Railway
Theater
Alice Underground
"Whimsical... a jolly-good mythic quest that sets Lewis Carroll's sacred texts on their heads... Delightful nonsense, and the real star is the spectacle."
-Boston Globe
Alice’s Adventures Underground is an original adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s books that is as much for adults as it is for children. The story takes us down the rabbit hole and through mirrors into worlds where we see best when we look at things upside down. Cut your moorings to the work-a-day world and adventure with Alice, as she goes looking for the key to the garden under mushrooms and through tree-tops.
Underground Railway Theater’s Alice explores the parallels between grown-up idiosyncrasies and the Carroll’s wonderful characters. Alice can’t control her growing and shrinking, her aging, or her temper. In fact, she sees a mirror of herself in the furious Queen of Hearts. When she loses the croquet game, her rage grows to such enormous proportions that Alice’s giant body fills the stage. Feeling sorry for herself, she swims in her own tears, she’s almost rescued by an ark filled with rodents, until they hit an iceberg! Alice’s tea party with the Mad Hatter and March Hare shifts into film noir as she confesses that, yes, she did plot to kill Time. She seeks advice on gaining control from the Red Queen (who needs to sprint just to stay in one place), comfort in the White Queen (who believes in all things impossible) and comes full circle to learn lessons in living from her own daughter.
Featuring outrageous puppets and masks, Alice’s Adventures Underground is a wild celebration of Carroll’s masterpiece of comedy and poetry, created to honor the author on his 100th anniversary.
