ARE YOU ALICE: A New Wonderland Tale Comes to The Tank

"She spoke in a terse tone of voice, and crossly gave orders to a room full of silent people with glass faces. As she stared at each one she seemed to see the ghost of herself looming back at her, as if her face were theirs and theirs hers. She looked at each one in turn and asked 'Are You Alice?' They each shook their head."

Permafrost Theatre Collective, in partnership with The Chameleon Fools Theatre Troupe and in association with The Tank, present a new Wonderland tale. In this bold reimagining, every actor in the all female/non-cis cast plays Alice at one point or other in the story. Built around repurposed passages from Lewis Carroll's classic stories, Are You Alice: A New Wonderland Tale asks questions of identity, womanhood, and self-acceptance in a world which constantly redraws the lines and rewrites the rules.

Iconic images such as The Jabberwocky, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and The Queen of Hearts are brought to life using original music, dance, puppetry, and more in this multidisciplinary production. More obscure passages also find their way into the fray, such as the Walrus and the Carpenter, and the Song of the White Knight, all of them used to create a universal 'Alice' for the 21st Century. It is not to be missed.

This workshop is the third round of development for the show, having previously been showcased at Alchemical Theatre Lab, and as part of Rising Sun Performance Company's new works development residency on Governors Island. Audiences of all ages have left delighted and invigorated by this familiar, yet unfamiliar narrative.

Directing the piece is Permafrost founder Christina Rose Ashby (Life is a Dream: a New Vintage, EagerRisk Theatre). It stars Marth Brown (Growing up on the Prairie, Artspower), Amelia Cain (Henry the Fifth, Hamlet Isn't Dead), Mae Cutrona ([title of show]), Shelley Franklin (Spamalot, Stolen Shakespeare Guild), Nola Hayes (AMDA Graduate), Kayla Prestel (Pip's Island, NYC), and Sam Turlington (Rockabye Hamlet, Ophelia Theatre). It contains live music composed, arranged and performed by Thomas Burns Scully (Broad City). The stage manager is Melissa Mowry.

Tickets can be purchased at www.permafrosttheatrecollective.com.

Photo Credit: Jody Christopherson

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