Alice at the Asylum

By Lydia Vie
Directed by Anastasia Revi

Photo credit Yiannis Katsaris

Show Trailer

Theatre Lab Company’s new production is an innovative re-telling of the beloved classic story, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland accompanied by an original live musical score.

A story blending the old and the new, classic and contemporary, reality and imagination, all coming together in the quest to understand our identity. Set in contemporary London, Mr. Rose, a property investor, believes he has struck gold when he buys a new building, the Asylum, a former Victorian asylum. As he prepares to demolish the building, he decides to pay a visit to the site, only to find that it is not empty as expected. Here, he meets Alice, the last patient of the Asylum before it was forced to shut down in 1873. Curious and impatient, Mr. Rose does all he can to get Alice out of the Asylum and proceed with his dream of gentrification. Alice, however, has other ideas. It’s time for tea, you see.

The production will be staged at the Victorian Asylum Chapel in London, then tour at The Electric Theatre, Guildford and Old Fire Station, Oxford. Lewis Carroll had strong connections with all three cities. At St. Mark’s Church in Maida Vale, recently destroyed by a fire, he first met the Liddell family whose youngest daughter, Alice, was the inspiration for his novel. He spent much of his life in Oxford where he studied and worked at Christchurch College and wrote Alice in Wonderland. Guildford is his resting place, at the Mount Cemetery, and he spent much time in Guildford visiting his sisters and preached at St Mary's Church. The Alice Through The Looking Glass statue can be seen in the castle grounds and the statue of Alice with her sister, watching the rabbit go down the hole is in Millmead by the river.

The production opens at The Electric Theatre on Lewis Carroll’s 192nd birthday.
Credits

Creative Team:

Written by Lydia Vie
Directed by Anastasia Revi
Music by Hades
Costumes by Lisa Lach-Nielsen
Lights and photography by Yiannis Katsaris
Production by Martina Reynolds

Cast:

Manolis Emmanouel
Lydia Vie
David Furlong
Sevi Filippidou
Hades
Christiana Maycea
Rujenne Green


Suitable for age 12+/Parental Guidance
The performance runs for 70 minutes.

About Theatre Lab Company:

Theatre Lab Company, the creators of the recent London production and UK tour of Emmeline: The Suffragette Movement are known for dynamic, daring and visually stunning work, and at the same time, creating accessible and engaging theatre for a wide audience. Their profile includes classics, devised and musical productions as well as classical and contemporary Greek theatre. Recent performances include Molière’s Don Juan at The Vaults and Hoxton Hall, Brecht’s A Respectable Wedding at OFS, Oxford, Charles Dickens Great Expectations at The Playground Theatre, Lucrezia the Sinner, Lucrezia the Saint at Oxford Playhouse and The Cockpit, Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn at Tabard Theatre and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé at Hoxton Hall.

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