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Alice in Wonderland: Bright fun at a madcap pace
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By Cameron Woodhead
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The Athenaeum, until January 23
How do you adapt children’s theatre so it can be held during a pandemic? Australian Shakespeare Company’s
Alice in Wonderland – an annual summer fixture, standing alongside its long-running production of
Wind in the Willows in the Royal Botanic Gardens – is leading the way.
Dennis Manahan as the Mad Hatter and Ayesha Gibson as Alice in Alice in Wonderland.
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The bright family entertainment is usually staged al fresco in the manicured gardens of the Rippon Lea mansion in Elsternwick. And if you have seen it in previous years, you might recall the chaotic climax: a re-enactment of the Queen of Hearts’ croquet game, with adults donning playing card costumes and kids as hedgehog balls rolling through their legs.