Caterpillar truths and cake-eating delights

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Robyn Sassen

CHILDREN’S THEATRE REVIEW: ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

Alice

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“OH, but I’m too big to get into this garden!” Alice (Gugu Dhlamini) faces the quandaries of being in a parallel universe. Photograph by Christiaan Kotze.

TAKING A HEAVILY-detailed Victorian foray into a world conditioned by what we would in today’s times call surreal and packing it into one hour for a predominantly contemporary childcentric audience, is one challenge. Arranging it for a cast of but four performers is quite another. In the production mounted by VR Theatrical of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, levels of narrative content are played with and juxtaposed in a manner which is wild and mad, endearing and exciting, but does it significantly add to the work’s readability?

It’s a similar question which needs to be addressed in a contemplation of works such as The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Symbolically focused around the complexities of a little boy from a different planet, the work is…

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