WONDERLAND is Alice’s dream dreamt by us. We go along with her, walking through the bright forest, full of fears and secrets, we invent paths that were not there before and we leave Alice lost. When Alice asks the cat: “Which way I ought to go from here?” the Cat answers: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to”.
We feel then that the dream made up by Carroll for his beloved Alice slightly touches our reality. And when Alice, in her initiation path, reaches the Queen´s wonderful white rose garden, we snap our fingers so that her dream (and ours) ends at the right moment. Happy ending?
staging and scenography
João Paulo Seara Cardoso
cast
Micaela Soares
Rui Queiroz de Matos
Shirley Resende
Vitor Gomes
marionettes
Júlio Vanzeler
music
Roberto Neulichedl
lyrics
Maria de Noronha
translation to English
John Havelda
costumes
Pedro Ribeiro
movement
Isabel Barros
lighting design
António Real and Margarida Alves
production
Sofia Carvalho
production assistant
Pedro Miguel Castro
staging assistant
Pedro Ribeiro
lighting and sound operation
Margarida Alves
subtitle operation
Pedro Castro
construction workshop
Rui Pedro Rodrigues (coordination)
Inês Coutinho (painting)
Nuno Valdemar Guedes
costume making
Cláudia Ribeiro (coordination)
Celeste Marinho (master-seamstress)
Esperança Sousa (costume crew)
Catarina Barros (prop coordination)
Patrícia Mota (prop assistant)
scenography construction
Américo Castanheira/Tudo-Faço
stage photography
Susana Neves
illustration
Júlio Vanzeler
projected images
Photographs of Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll
Paintings by Claude Monet (altered)
intern
Ângela Ribeiro