Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a book which many  have read and which almost everybody watched in its movie version starring Johnny Depp. The story is well-known all over the world. And everybody who reads or watches it notices how intricate it is. Now imagine a three-piece who tries to perform this story as a theatre play on a stage in our school. All characters of the story must be impersonated by only three actors. You are of the opinion that this cannot work, right? First we thought so, too, but the actors Charlie (24), Lissy (26) and Charlotte (25) showed us how it can be done.

All characters impersonated by only three actors - it works!

They started with an opening scene which is in the book, but not in the movie: There is a classroom in which three girls are being interrogated by their teacher. One of them is Alice. As she starts dreaming, she somehow gets into another world, Wonderland. At that point I asked myself how the three actors could perform their play.

More than 20 different costumes, ways of speaking and emotions

Well, this is how: They brought more than twenty different costumes with them and there was a small wall on stage behind which they were assorted. While Charlotte, the actress who did Alice, never changed her role during the play, it was Charlie‘s and Lissy‘s exercise to quickly change their costumes as well as their way of speaking and emotions from character to character who Alice meets in Wonderland. Except for a few moments , every character they embodied was really authentic.

This was even more astonishing when the actors told us (after the play) that they had only had eight days of rehearsals. They did not know what play they would perform next, but we hope that they will return with it to our school.

Max Schütz (Q11)