Alice in Concert
Published on 14. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
86 pages
978-0-573-68119-6 (ISBN)
Description
This "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
was a New York Shakespeare Festival production. Swados composed the score adapted
the book and directed for the stage. Meryl Streep starred as "Alice" at New York's Public
Theatre.
Later aired on PBS and titled Alice at the Palace this imaginative rendering of the Lewis
Carroll classic is performed concert-style on a bare stage the actors in modern rehearsal
clothes. Stylistically the music ranges from rock to country/western to calypso as the
outlandish characters of "Wonderland" are reinterpreted in this "story theatre"-type setting.
was a New York Shakespeare Festival production. Swados composed the score adapted
the book and directed for the stage. Meryl Streep starred as "Alice" at New York's Public
Theatre.
Later aired on PBS and titled Alice at the Palace this imaginative rendering of the Lewis
Carroll classic is performed concert-style on a bare stage the actors in modern rehearsal
clothes. Stylistically the music ranges from rock to country/western to calypso as the
outlandish characters of "Wonderland" are reinterpreted in this "story theatre"-type setting.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
103 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-573-68119-6 (9780573681196)
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Schweitzer Classification