Alice Through the Looking Glass is being performed as part of the Stratford Festival this year. I was lucky enough to get tickets for a performance where the proceeds went to the United Way. I was excited to see Alice, looking forward to whimsy, colour and fun. Alice was good, but not great. The second half, after intermission was fabulous. It was engaging, funny and exciting.
I love the theatre and was so excited to see a play in
Stratford this year (I’m hoping to see another one in the fall). I wish I could have been as excited about
Alice as I was about Tommy last
year. Alice Through The Looking
Glass is fabulous source material (which I should read), I thought
there would just be more.
The costumes were fantastic, the bicycles were perfect. The set, the effects, were all brilliant. If you can sit through the talking of the
first half, the second half is definitely worth it. It’s worth it just to see Humptey Dumptey
have his fall. That was hilarious, laugh
out loud funny.
I have to warn, this show is not really for little
kids. I did not bring my five-year-old
and I’m glad. There were kids her age
there and younger. They were so very
bored. It was better for them for the
second half too, but there were things happening throughout the whole play that
I don’t think they would necessarily understand. Children should be at least 8, I think, maybe
older.
Alice Through The Looking Glass was
fun. More than anything, it has made me
want to read the book. I’m looking
forward to the next play I see too. I
hope I get to see another play at the Stratford Festival this year.
