Alice in Wonderland

A pantomime by Don Carroll
Thursday 28 January 1999 - Saturday 30 January 1999
& Thursday 4 February 1999 - Saturday 6 February 1999
Faringdon Community Theatre, The Pump House, 5 Market Place, Faringdon
Directed by Debbie Lock
Producer: Karen Whiffen
Musical Director: Debra Warner

Performances start 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier. Each performance lasts approximately 2½ hours. Matinées on Saturdays only.
Tickets were available from Reflections, 8 Marlborough Street, Faringdon.

Winner of the ODN Pantomime Festival 1999

A children’s story by Lewis Carroll adapted for the stage by Don Carroll.

Alice is sitting with her sister outdoors when she spies a White Rabbit with a pocket watch. Fascinated by the sight, she follows the rabbit down the hole. She falls for a long time, and finds herself in a long hallway full of doors. There is also a key on the table, which unlocks a tiny door; through this door, she spies a beautiful garden. She longs to get there, but the door is too small. Soon, she finds a drink with a note that asks her to drink it. There is later a cake with a note that tells her to eat; Alice uses both, but she cannot seem to get a handle on things, and is always either too large to get through the door or too small to reach the key.

Alice’s strange adventures continue until eventually following a court scene where she is wrongly accused, she wakes up, it has all been a dream.

We managed to get back into the Community Centre for this production. It closed down completely soon after and an attempt was made to obtain a 20-25 year lease on just the theatre, but it was refused. Read more… History of FDS.

Rob Stredder; Carolyn Taylor

Naomi Bullock; Anna MacKenzie; Joan Lee

Naomi Bullock; Dave Headey

Dominic Bullock; Eleanor Morton (Dormouse); Peter Webster

Naomi Bullock; Carolyn Taylor

Jo Webster

Mike Durham; Lucy Walden; Dominic Bullock; Dave Headey

Jo Webster; Mike Durham; Rob Stredder (front)

Dominic Bullock; Peter Webster; Naomi Bullock

Photographs by kind permission of Ian Smith (founder of the ‘Faringdon Folly’ newspaper)