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Published 3:50 PM, July 23, 2013
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Updated 3:50 PM, July 23, 2013
THIS GENERATION'S ALICE. Dani Gana and a casting of admired thespians accompany the Lewis Carroll archetypal aback to activity on stage. All images address of Repertory Philippines
MANILA, Philippines - Alice is a altered woman for anniversary generation. Her adventure has been apparent both as an innocent children's bogie account and as a consciousness-expanding emblematic absorption on argumentation bearded as applesauce and nonsense.
A adventure of an English babe who follows a talking white aerial bottomward a aperture area she meets a hookah-smoking caterpillar sitting on a behemothic mushroom, who drinks potions that accomplish her big and baby and shares tea with a berserk Mad Hatter — “Alice in Wonderland” is never the aforementioned account to those who boring through this arcane masterpiece's attractive glass.
Originally authored and illustrated in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll, the atypical “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” was apprenticed during the Victorian Era — additionally accepted as the Belle Epoque — aback airless norms apprenticed the elite like a corset, while poets and painters of the bohemian underground innovated with Art Nouveau and Impressionism, and advantaged in absinthe and opium.
In 1951, Walt Disney reinterpreted Carroll's words and illustrations as a techni-colored activated film.
PSYCHEDELIC ALLEGORICAL PONDERING. The appellation agenda of Disney's 'Alice in Wonderland.' Screen grab from YouTube (Levani Turdziladze)
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A bearing later, during the 1960s counter-culture and beef era, hippies experimenting with hallucinogenics would appear to admire this blur forth with Disney's added cartoons such as “Fantasia” as a capricious experience.
In 2000, the video bold “American McGee's Alice” connected the account of the charlatan in cadaverous appearance as a babe accident her butt on absoluteness and accepting to action her way out of an cover busy by bloodthirsty Mad Hatters and Queens of Hearts.
In 2010, cine administrator Tim Burton alloyed his casting of addictive Gothic aesthetics with Carroll's Victorian absurdity to actualize the blockbuster cinema.
Through the ages, “Alice in Wonderland” has additionally been referenced endless times in accepted culture, from the Beatles bedrock song “I Am the Walrus” to the “Matrix” science fiction trilogy. Always, there is a advocate who crosses from this absoluteness to the dream world.
This time around
JOIN THE TEA PARTY. 'Alice in Wonderland' is for accouchement and adults
It is Repertory Philippines' about-face to accompany Alice to activity for today's generation, with a musical. Choosing the book and lyrics by Jim Eiler and music by Jim Eiler and Jeanne Bargy, the amphitheater aggregation re-stages “Alice in Wonderland” with a arch cast, beat origami-inspired set designs, absurd apparel and communicable music.
Among those bringing it to activity are:
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Joy Virata is director, Liesl Batucan is abettor director, Baby Barredo is agreeable administrator and Jamie Wilson is abstruse director.
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MORE RELATABLE ALICE. 'The added Alices were a bit too uptight, too bankrupt off. I didn't appetite Alice to be so cold.'
Playing Alice is adolescent aerialist Dani Gana.
“For research, I've apprehend the book and watched the movies; both the 2010 one and the activated Disney movie. I've advised those Alices and absitively [that] instead of artful them and aggravating to become article I'm not, I'd accomplish an Alice [based on] myself and accompany myself into the role," Gana says.
"The added Alices were a bit too uptight, too bankrupt off. I didn't appetite Alice to be so cold. I capital her to be a bit younger, a bit friendlier, a added relatable appearance that the admirers will like.”
Liesl Batucan offers a altered acumen into the role of Alice, accepting played the role in 1997. She reveals, “Technically, the capital claiming is stamina. You accept to accumulate your activity up because already Alice enters the stage, she never leaves. She's there for all the scenes.
"Of all the roles in children's theater, it's this and Pinocchio — which I additionally played — that are the best physically ambitious for a lead. Vocally, it can get tiring. [With] added leads such as Sleeping Adorableness or Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz, you get to blow while it's the arena of the Wicked Witch. But with Alice, aggregate is accident to her and about her because it is her dream.”
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Gana sees both the upside and downside of her youthfulness. “An advantage is that I accept a altered booty on it. I can abruptness bodies with what I can do. A disadvantage is actuality baffled by all the adept actors who accept been actuality way best than me and who accept so abundant added experience.”
Batucan advises, “The claiming is not to disappear. As the lead, the admirers charge be able to latch on to her. Alice has to advance her activity and not get absent amidst a countless of colorful, clear and absurd characters. She still has to be the axial figure.”
Bituin Escalante, who plays the potentially scene-stealing role of the Queen of Hearts, sees no crisis of overshadowing the adolescent protagonist. “As written, she's declared to be so able anyway. Our Alices appear into their own and they do top everyone. It's accounting that way. There's no crisis as continued as you don't let the allotment get advanced of you. You are application a story,” she opines.
ON STAGE THE WHOLE TIME. 'Everything is accident to her and about her because it is her dream'
All are acquainted that the comedy charge entertain, artifice and agreeableness both accouchement and adults; but not all the players apperceive that the adventure has a abysmal subtext with so abundant cultural acceptation below its innocent fairytale veneer.
This serves the adventure best. It is those who are absolutely authentic of affection that can portray Alice best.
Batucan summarizes, “The capital affair we are activity for is that, in the end, Alice — afterwards affair all these absurd and camp characters (the talking rabbit, cheshire cat, caterpillar) — comes aback to England and finds a renewed acknowledgment for absolute life.
"Real activity is Wonderland, too, with absolute rabbits, bodies and caterpillars. Her dream wakes her to the adorableness of absolute life. That is the assignment we appetite to advise kids." - Rappler.com
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Repertory Philippines' 'Alice in Wonderland' is set to run from August 17 to December 15 at Onstage, Greenbelt 1, Makati City. For added information, appointment the Repertory Philippines Facebook page.
Rome Jorge is the editor in arch of Asian Traveler magazine.
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