Through The Looking Glass

Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby

Through The Looking Glass

17 May 2008 – 31 May 2008 Merlyn Theatre

Adapted from Lewis Carroll

Malthouse Theatre, Opera Australia, Victorian Opera,

Commission New Adaptation Theatre Opera Co-Production

In this unprecedented rendering of a much-loved classic, Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera produce an event as unique as the material at its heart. On a boating trip with seven year old Alice Liddell, Carroll gifted her with the fantastic story which would soon be indelibly associated with her name - a gift that would re-cast her as a pawn in the fantastic underworld of The Looking Glass. This glass is as much kaleidoscope as mirror, where space and time are refracted, splintering into chaos as rhyming flowers, roaring royals and reluctant foodstuffs wage war on sense and sensibility.

Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby
Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby
Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby
Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby
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Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby

Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby

Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby

Production still for "Through the Looking Glass". Photographer: Jeff Busby

Cast

Creatives

Acknowledgements

A Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera commission in association with Opera Australia.