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| Dining with Alice, 1999. Photo Steve Day. |
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‘ a Mad Hatter’s tea party on a grand scale, in which the food slips down along with the riddles, anagrams, tongue-twisters and interventions… as batty as it is delightful. ’
The Guardian |
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| Dining with Alice was a dinner party with a difference – an eccentric piece of theatre that plunged its audience straight into the world of Lewis Carroll’s imagination. Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this unforgettable evening was directed by Hilary Westlake, and featured some great performance artists, including Gary Stevens, Ralph Oswick and Trevor Stuart. The show took the form of a sumptuous Victorian dinner set against the follies and strutting peacocks of the remote and mysterious Larmer Tree Pleasure Gardens in Dorset. But order turned to chaos as the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and of course Alice herself appeared… |
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Artichoke plans to restage
Dining with Alice in 2009
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Originally commissioned for the 1999 Salisbury Festival |
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