Alice's Wonderland
Have you ever quarrelled with Time or visited a forest where things have no names? Isn’t it weird that the body of a Snap-Dragonfly is made of plum pudding?
Alice’s Wonderland is a musical performance based on the famous novel by Lewis Carroll. Together with Alice’s son, we embark on a journey through the maze that is memory, where a human (or perhaps the Mock Turtle?) can fold up or extend like a telescope. Humpty Dumpty explains what ‘borogoves’ and ‘raths’ are. The Queen of Hearts plays croquet with mallets made with live flamingoes. In the well of childhood, and in the graveyard of clocks, we discover jars of orange marmalade and, above all, a recipe for saving the world from oblivion.
Songs are performed live by The Mad Hatters Orchestra, with lyrics by Sławomir Narloch set to music by Jakub Gawlik.
The performance is recommended for parents with children over 10 years old.
The performance based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll translated by Maciej Słomczyński. The name of the character Mock Turtle translated by Antoni Marianowicz.
Please mind that there are smoke effects in some scenes during the show.
Please mind that children are not allowed to remain unattended in the Theatre and during the show.
author of stage adaptation, lyrics, direction: Sławomir Narloch
set and costume design: Martyna Kander
music: Jakub Gawlik
choreography: Anna Hop
vocal preparation: Magdalena Czuba
lighting design: Karolina Gębska
Awards and Nominations
2023 – nomination for the Konrad Swinarski Award in "the best director of 2022/2023 season" category for Sławomir Narloch for the direction of Alice's Wonderland
2023 – third prize of Plebiscite of Musicals Seasons Premier 2022/2023 in „Best musical set design of the season 2022/2023” category to Martyna Kander for the set design of Alice's Wonderland
Cast
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Ewa Konstancja Bułhak
Alice
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Cezary Kosiński
Son
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Paweł Paprocki
The Mad Hatter
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Anna Lobedan
The Queen of Hearts, Flamingo, Chorister
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Hubert Paszkiewicz
The King of Hearts, Chorister
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Oskar Hamerski
The Mock Turtle, The Two, Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Bartłomiej Bobrowski
The Gryphon, Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Paulina Szostak
Elsie, The Ten, Flamingo
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Henryk Simon
The Knight, The Six, Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Kacper Matula
The Fawn, The Seven, Flamingo, Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Grzegorz Kwiecień
Humpty Dumpty, Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Robert Czerwiński
The Mosquito, The Eight, Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Jakub Gawlik
The Catterpillar, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Piotr Piksa
The Queen of Hearts Singer, The Five, Flamingo
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Magdalena Czuba
The Queen of Hearts Singer, Flamingo (guest actor)
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Kamil Mrożek
The Hedgehog, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Ewa Bukała
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (TA)
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Patrycja Grzywińska
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor)
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Karolina Gwóźdź
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor)
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Paulina Korthals
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister
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Kamila Najduk
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor, TA)
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Paulina Wróblewska
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor)
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Maciej Karbowski
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor)
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Wojciech Melzer
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor)
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Mikołaj Śliwa
Flamingo, The Queen of Hearts Chorister (guest actor)
And children
Michał Pietruczuk / Mikołaj Wachowski – Little Son
Janina Kozłowska / Felicja Nizińska – Girl
The Mad Hatters Orchestra
Angela Gołaszewska-Dziołak / Aleksander Zwierz – violin
Krystyna Wiśniewska / Antoni Wrona – cello
Konrad Gzik / Jakub Wydrzyński – saxophones, flute
Maciej Kozioł / Michał Zuń – double bass
Michał Bator / Jarema Jarosiński – drums
Paweł Paprocki – keyboards
Kacper Matula – guitars, guitaleles
Jakub Gawlik – accordion
Henryk Simon – percussion instruments
Production team
- director's assistant: Magdalena Czuba
- stunt effects: Andrzej Słomiński
- sound technicians:Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski, Mariusz Maszewski
light technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski, Krzysztof Łukasz Stefan - stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
prompter: Magdalena Markowska
Licence for this stage production was granted by the Society of Authors – ZAiKS.
Gallery
MUSIC IS TIME – music teaser video
Musical preview of Alice's Wonderland
music: Jakub Gawlik / lyrics: Sławomir Narloch / as The Mad Hatter: Paweł Paprocki
◊ MUSIC IS TIME
music: Jakub Gawlik
lyrics: Sławomir Narloch
vocal preparation: Magdalena Czuba
vocal: Paweł Paprocki
choir: Kacper Matula, Hubert Paszkiewicz, Henryk Simon
◊ The Mad Hatters Orchestra:
Aleksander Zwierz (violin)
Antoni Wrona (cello)
Konrad Gzik (saxophones and flute)
Jakub Gawlik (accordion)
Michał Zuń (double bass)
Michał Bator (drums)
◊ teaser production:
director: Sławomir Narloch
costume: Martyna Kander
director's assistant: Magdalena Czuba
video: Stefan Ronisz
production: Marta Ankiersztejn, Marzena Dąbrowska, Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora (Communication and Marketing Department of the National Theatre)
ALICE'S WONDERLAND – collages
A series of ten collages to the performance Alice's Wonderland / Author: Adrianna Gołębiewska
Adrianna Gołębiewska – set designer, author of collages, photographs, sculptures, video works and multimedia installations; graduate of the Faculty of Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2015) and the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2017)