Opening Night: 4 March 2023
Author: Lewis Carroll
Title: Alice's Wonderland after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 
Translator: Maciej Słomczyński
Director: Sławomir Narloch

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 2 hours 30 min inculding one interval


Ticket prices:

full-price tickets:
zone I: 120 PLN
zone II: 110 PLN
zone III: 100 PLN

concession tickets:
zone I: 85 PLN
zone II: 75 PLN
zone III: 65 PLN

rush ticket:
40 PLN more info

students of state theatre and art schools: 
15 PLN more info

Alice's Wonderland

Have you ever quarrelled with Time or visited a forest where things have no names? Isn’t it weird that the body of a Snap-Dragonfly is made of plum pudding?

Alice’s Wonderland is a musical performance based on the famous novel by Lewis Carroll. Together with Alice’s son, we embark on a journey through the maze that is memory, where a human (or perhaps the Mock Turtle?) can fold up or extend like a telescope. Humpty Dumpty explains what ‘borogoves’ and ‘raths’ are. The Queen of Hearts plays croquet with mallets made with live flamingoes. In the well of childhood, and in the graveyard of clocks, we discover jars of orange marmalade and, above all, a recipe for saving the world from oblivion.
Songs are performed live by The Mad Hatters Orchestra, with lyrics by Sławomir Narloch set to music by Jakub Gawlik.

The performance is recommended for parents with children over 10 years old.

The performance based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll translated by Maciej Słomczyński. The name of the character Mock Turtle translated by Antoni Marianowicz.

Please mind that there are smoke effects in some scenes during the show. 

Please mind that children are not allowed to remain unattended in the Theatre and during the show.

author of stage adaptation, lyrics, direction: Sławomir Narloch
set and costume design: Martyna Kander
music: Jakub Gawlik
choreography: Anna Hop
vocal preparation: Magdalena Czuba
lighting design: Karolina Gębska

Awards and Nominations

2023 – nomination for the Konrad Swinarski Award in "the best director of 2022/2023 season" category for Sławomir Narloch for the direction of Alice's Wonderland
2023 – third prize of Plebiscite of Musicals Seasons Premier 2022/2023 in „Best musical set design of the season 2022/2023” category to Martyna Kander for the set design of Alice's Wonderland 

Cast

And children

Michał Pietruczuk / Mikołaj Wachowski – Little Son
Janina Kozłowska / Felicja Nizińska – Girl

The Mad Hatters Orchestra

Agata Cieplińska / Angela Gołaszewska-Dziołak / Monika Sobkiewicz-Hirszch / Aleksander Zwierz – violin
Maria Sienkiewicz / Krystyna Wiśniewska / Antonii Wojciechowski / Antoni Wrona – cello
Konrad Gzik / Krzysztof Koszowski / Jakub Wydrzyński / Wiktor Wysocki  – saxophones, flute
Wojciech Gumiński / Maciej Kozioł / Michał Zuń – double bass
Michał Bator / Jarema Jarosiński / Radosław Mysłek – drums
Paweł Paprocki – keyboards
Kacper Matula – guitars, guitaleles
Jakub Gawlik – accordion
Henryk Simon – percussion instruments

 

Production team

  • director's assistant: Magdalena Czuba
    • stunt effects: Andrzej Słomiński 
  • sound technicians: Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski, Mariusz Maszewski
  • light technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski, Krzysztof Łukasz Stefan
  • stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
    prompter: Magdalena Markowska


Licence for this stage production was granted by the Society of Authors – ZAiKS.



Gallery

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The Company. Phot. Marta Ankiersztejn


MUSIC IS TIME – music teaser video

Musical preview of Alice's Wonderland
music: Jakub Gawlik / lyrics: Sławomir Narloch / as The Mad Hatter: Paweł Paprocki

◊ MUSIC IS TIME
music: Jakub Gawlik
lyrics: Sławomir Narloch
vocal preparation: Magdalena Czuba
vocal: Paweł Paprocki
choir: Kacper Matula, Hubert Paszkiewicz, Henryk Simon

◊ The Mad Hatters Orchestra:
Aleksander Zwierz (violin)
Antoni Wrona (cello)
Konrad Gzik (saxophones and flute)
Jakub Gawlik (accordion)
Michał Zuń (double bass)
Michał Bator (drums)

◊ recording: Mariusz Maszewski
◊ teaser production:
director: Sławomir Narloch
costume: Martyna Kander
director's assistant: Magdalena Czuba
video: Stefan Ronisz
production: Marta Ankiersztejn, Marzena Dąbrowska, Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora (Communication and Marketing Department of the National Theatre)


ALICE'S WONDERLAND – collages

A series of ten collages to the performance Alice's Wonderland / Author: Adrianna Gołębiewska

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Adrianna Gołębiewska – set designer, author of collages, photographs, sculptures, video works and multimedia installations; graduate of the Faculty of Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2015) and the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2017)

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