Alice: An Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Oberon Modern Plays)

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London's Lyric Hammersmith to Present World Premiere of Laura Wade's Tipping the Velvet". playbill.com. Playbill. 15 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2015. Certainly this is a play of two halves with the second far exceeding the first as its young cast grew in confidence. The white rabbit as a hoodie-wearing yoof? The Queen of hearts as Alice’s own mother? Croquet as a bargaining stage in mourning? It's Alice in Wonderland, but not as we know it. Disney+ Reveals New Original Series "Rivals", an Outrageously Bold Eight-Part Saga Full of Power, Betrayal and Romance, Based on Jilly Cooper's Iconic Novel".

It's a conceit that pays off well, given that Carroll's heroine is usually defined by her capacity for shrinkage, growth spurts and bouts of tears. Ruby Bentall's Alice is an obstreperous, streetwise kid who responds in a contemporary manner. "It must be a computer game," she decides. "I just need to work out how to get on to the next level." Gobo is a new charity that gives young people their first paid job in the theatre. If this is the talent they have to work with then they’re worth supporting. Wade presents each surreal encounter as a manifestation of the heroine's trauma – the Mad Hatter's tea party becomes a grotesque travesty of the funeral wake introduced at the beginning. But the episodic nature of the story means that certain scenes are inevitably more engaging than others. The scatological repartee of Oliver Birch and John Biddle's Tweedledum and Tweedledee is enthusiastically embraced by younger members of the audience, and composer David Shrubsole's setting of the Lobster Quadrille is a delight.Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here, 2005 Directed by Dane Lone Scherfig, who made the equally English film An Education in 2009, Wade's story still centres on a group of overprivileged undergraduates who set about getting "chateaued" at a "trashable" dining club venue one night. The film bears the tag line "Filthy. Rich. Spoilt. Rotten", but perhaps it is the unofficial motto of Oxford's real-life Bullingdon Club, "I like the sound of breaking glass," that gives a clearer idea of the destructive decadence at its core. Alice sets out on an inward journey, on which she encounters the familiar figures from Dodgson's story, who provide experiences and proffer advice about how to cope with the ups and downs of life. She eventually emerges, more capable of dealing with her loss, and ready to re-enter the real world. In a final encounter, the White Rabbit summarises the advice that she's been given on the way, and helps Alice to reflect on her 'learning experience'. So, the theme of this version, which starts with a funeral, is teenage bereavement and how to deal with it.

Wade, Laura. "Oberon Books – The UK's most exciting independent publisher". Oberonbooks.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 26 November 2016. Laura Wade adapted Sarah Waters’ novel Tipping The Velvet for the stage in 2015, a story which tells the story of a Victorian woman who falls in love with a cross-dresser. Admittedly, it doesn’t sound astoundingly relevant, but the themes of acceptance and cultural oppression are certainly applicable to aspects of today’s society. More obviously pertinent is her play Other Hands about a couple that has semi-platonic relationships with other people and both suffer from repetitive strain injuries. The major theme of the play is actually how reliance on technology has desensitised us towards the feelings of others, and how emotional discrepancies have become normalised in modern relationships. The picture it paints is quite bleak, but it certainly makes you think twice about how people relate to each other in the modern world. 4. There is incredible variety in her work After a drama degree at Bristol University, she began writing seriously, earning her keep with temp jobs during the day. "Temping was good. At the beginning of the week, I'd hate everyone. By the end of the week, there'd be all these characters; everyone had some sort of quirk." But she regards her move to London and her joining of the Royal Court's young writers programme as the real start of her career. The Court was a wonderful refuge, not least because, for the first time, she met other writers. Whoever called a truce on class warfare may have to think again with the release of The Riot Club. Wade is sure the topic is a draw for an audience. "We love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination." Personally, I would have liked more glitter in the set - well it is Christmas - and couldn't really recommend it for the under tens if only because of its length and complexity. I may be proved wrong by the end of the week.

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Thorpe, Vanessa (7 September 2014). "Laura Wade: her play Posh put a spotlight on the spoilt". The Guardian. UK . Retrieved 30 June 2015. These two veterans - along with Anne-marie Greene - helped raise the game of the rest of the cast, largely made up of members of the Criterion's Satuday drama school. Cooke, Rachel (25 November 2007). "Best of the West: Rachel Cooke interviews actor Sam West". The Observer. UK . Retrieved 6 June 2015. From 2007 to 2011, Wade lived with actor Samuel West, [21] son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales. [22] [23] After a two-year split, Wade and West reunited, and now have two daughters, born in 2014 and 2017. [24] Plays [ edit ] Published [ edit ] On a feezing cold night in December a play was staged. A play that told of wondrous creatures and of things beyond imagining. A play in which the ordinary every day cares of the audience were suspended for a while as they entered a land of talking caterpillars, a beautiful blue cat, flamingos and hedgehogs, a turtle with a heavy load, a Queen with a nasty temper, a crazy Mad Hatter, and a little girl who having lost her brother in an accident dreams her way out of her sadness. Yes folks, It’s Alice in Wonderland, but not quite as you know it. This is Alice, by Laura Wade, adapted from Lewis Carroll’s famous tale, here on stage at The Criterion Theatre, Earlsdon. It’s a show that draws heavily upon the talents of the theatre’s young drama class participants and places them alongside some of the Criterion’s more familiar faces, giving them a chance to gain experience in the spotlight. It’s a good-hearted romp through a classic tale, spiced up with music from The Arctic Monkeys.