Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Running time 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval.
Croatian language, Slovene surtitles.

Director Renata Carola Gatica
Translator Anton Šoljan
Dramaturg and author of puppet animation Tamara Kučinović
Dramaturg and assistant director Ivana Đula
Set designers Isidora Spasić, Igor Vasiljev
Costume designer DECKER+KUTIĆ
Composer Ivanka Mazurkijević, Damir Martinović Mrle
Stage movement designer Staša Zurovac
Lighting designer Aleksandar Čavlek
Sound designer Miroslav Piškulić
Make-up and hair designer Laura Buljan, Mirela Kunštek
Author of props Davor Peršić
Inspicient Milica Kostanić

Cast
Alice Anđela Ramljak
Alice Hrvojka Begović
Brave Alice Barbara Prpić
Wise Alice Marica Vidušić
Sensitive Alice Tina Orlandini
The White Rabbit, The March Hare Rakan Rushaidat
The Cook, The Mad Hatter Dado Ćosić
The Duchess Edvin Liverić
The Mock Turtle Mateo Videk
The Seagull Robert Budak
Kornjučo, The King Vedran Živolić
The Dormouse, The Caterpillar Sreten Mokrović
The Queen Petar Leventić

When it was first published (1865), this Luddite tale by the English mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, turned the English children's literature upside down and seriously endangered the didactic literature of the time. "We're all mad here," is the statement repeated by the fantastic characters on Alice's path. Madness is a synonym for freedom, otherness, particularity, individuality in Wonderland. The path there is the path of growing up, the path to the self. Alice, in her struggle against adulthood, changes her size several times in a day, but she can't decide what she would really like to be. Because she doesn't know what she wants, she also forgets who she is. Along with her name she also loses her identity. She searches for it in encounters with others, with bizarre personifications of her own fears, prejudice and eccentricity. To belong and at the same to not belong is Alice's fundamental existential paradox, which she must inevitably and without mercy face - in others (and in herself) she recognises the most unacceptable characteristics, even the darkest ones, as embodied by the Queen. "If you don't know who you are, I'll tell you," the Queen closes her argument and heads start rolling, as if the fears splintered. Alice freezes, wakes up and returns home newly established: a very grown up, yet individualistic dreamer.

Themes: growing up - identity - fears - prejudice - imagination - truth

The guest performance is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb.