Through the Looking Glass single work   musical theatre   opera  
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Through the Looking Glass
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'On a boating trip with seven year old Alice Liddell, Carroll gifted her with the fantastic story which would soon be indelibly associated with her name - a gift that would re-cast her as a pawn in the fantastic underworld of The Looking Glass. This glass is as much kaleidoscope as mirror, where space and time are refracted, splintering into chaos as rhyming flowers, roaring royals and reluctant foodstuffs wage war on sense and sensibility. While beneath it all stretches the long shadow of this mad world's creator, Master of Divinity, Lewis Carroll ... the writer and photographer - whose twinned passions he employed to freeze the object of his affection, where age and memory could not work their ways. Is this what Alice comes to discover in her looking glass: that her image, perhaps, was never her own?

Notes

  • Influenced by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass

Production Details

  • Produced by Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera at the Merlyn Theatre, 17 to 31 May 2008. Season directed by Michael Kantor.

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Works about this Work

Alice at the Opera Corrie Perkin , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 May 2008; (p. 16-17)
The Upton Factor Russell Skelton , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 16 February 2008; (p. 17-18)
The Upton Factor Russell Skelton , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 16 February 2008; (p. 17-18)
Alice at the Opera Corrie Perkin , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 May 2008; (p. 16-17)
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