Two sides to the Mad Hatter at the Royal Opera House - BBC News - Report.Your Reaction: What did you think of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in cinemas 2017?.The delicious result shows The Royal Ballet at its best, bringing together world-class dance with enchanting family entertainment. But the ballet does not avoid the darker undercurrents of Lewis Carroll’s story: a nightmarish kitchen, an eerily disembodied Cheshire Cat and the unhinged tea party are all here in vivid detail. Bob Crowley’s wildly imaginative, eye-popping designs draw on everything from puppetry to projections to make Wonderland wonderfully real.Īlice encounters a cast of extraordinary and instantly recognizable characters, from the highly strung Queen of Hearts – who performs a hilarious send-up of The Sleeping Beauty’s famous Rose Adage – to a playing card corps de ballet, a sinuous caterpillar and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter. Joby Talbot’s score combines contemporary soundworlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century. Read more… (Contains spoilers) BackgroundĬhristopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography. When she follows him down a rabbit hole events become curiouser and curiouser…
Photograph by Bill CooperĪt a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit.
Vadim Muntagirov as Jack/The Knave of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Royal Ballet © ROH, 2014.
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