In today's lesson we decided that all the characters are being questioned after the party about what has happened to Alice and they are all asked questions by a voice over (possibly by the person playing Alice) and they all have different versions of how the night went. We sat down and planned a sequence of events that the piece would follow, after we all agreed that it would set in an interview room in a Police Station. At the start, it would be party scene, which is meant to represent Alice falling down the Rabbit Hole. This would be done through physical distortion using distorted music so it looks creepy to the audience. This would then go straight to the interview rooms where everyone bar Alice would be interviewed. They would be asked questions by a voice over. This would feature flashbacks that included Alice. We aren't entirely sure how it will end so far, so we will go along as planned and see how the piece could end.
One idea for an ending was that Alice had fallen down a hole and died. We also thought that the Queen of Hearts character could hate Alice and so the audience would think it was her who had caused Alice to die and then right at the end it would be revealed to be someone that the audience wouldn't have suspected. Before we could start trying out our ideas, we decided on who would play which part.
Characters and the actors playing them:
Alice- Rebekah Richardson (me)
Queen of Hearts- Katie Ovenden
Mad Hatter- Morgan Ratcliffe
White Rabbit- Jack Ryder
Cheshire Cat- Emily Lunn
We then started to improvise different ways in which we could show Alice falling down the Rabbit Hole. We thought it would be a good idea to have Alice stood in the middle and the other characters surrounding her and pulling her all over the place, in a creepy non-realistic sort of way to show the distortion that is Wonderland. Hopefully our audience will understand that Alice is meant to be falling down the hole.
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| An illustrational from the book by Lewis Carroll |
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