Alice in Wonderland
A cast of over 80 First to Fourth Year pupils brought Lewis Carroll’s delightful world of nonsense to life on Wednesday and Thursday this week. With an array of fabulously colourful costumes, the well-known and much loved characters entertained their audience with Carroll’s witty dialogue as well as a beautifully whimsical choral rendition of How doth the Little Crocodile accompanied by Paige’s wonderful dancing crocodile. There was also a glorious Lobster quadrille with 32 lobsters, seals and turtles reliving the Mock-Turtle (Hannah) and Gryphons’s (Ella) glory days. The two Alices (Lara on Wednesday and Millie on Thursday) shone as the young Alice Liddell, taking the audience seamlessly though some enchanting set scenes, such as the Mad Hatter’s tea party, which was very convincingly portrayed by Josh M as the March Hare, Josh C as the Mad Hatter and Scarlett as the soporific Dormouse. Act two also saw the stage of the Humphreys Theatre transformed into a world of cards playing a crazy croquet game with rolling hedgehogs, live croquet hoops and a formidable Anastasia as the Queen of Hearts terrorising every creature on stage, including the enigmatic Cheshire Cat (Olivia/ Reuben) before Alice finds herself back on the riverbank begging Charles (Lewis Carrol played by Reuben Andriesz) to write down her adventures underground and thank goodness she did. Mrs Yankova, the Director said, “this is my all-time favourite story and I loved having so many pupils, from so many different year groups, involved, both on stage and backstage, making props, doing make up and assisting with the lighting and sound. It’s been hard work with only one rehearsal a week but Caterham pupils, as ever, have risen to the challenge and done both themselves and the School proud.”
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