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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a famous and influential English fantasy novel for children by Lewis Caroll ()[].
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The original text
The original title was Alice's Adventures in Underground, but it was published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. It has generally become known simply as Alice in Wonderland.
The novel tells the story of a young girl named Alice falls who through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures, and is seen as a fine example of the literary nonsense genre.
Translations and adaptations
The novel has been been widely translated and adapted for stage, radio, screen and film on nuemrous occasions.
Performance history in South Africa
The novel has been performed numerous times in South Africa, in a variety of formats (e.g. as a straight play, as a musical, as a ballet, etc.) and under a range of titles.
1941: Produced by Phil Levard for African Consolidated Theatres at the Standard Theatre.
1981: Alice! in Wonderland and through the looking glass : directed by John Badenhorst at The People's Space Theatre in January 1981. Material held by NELM: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 2. 24.
2015: Produced by the Rother-Swain Drama Studio in the Pemads Little Theatre, Port Elizabeth, directed by Sharon Rother and Linda-Louise Swain, with students from the Studio.
Sources
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South African productions
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