
Alice in Wonderland
A pantomime written 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
Times: 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.
Photographs by kind permission of Ian Smith (founder of the ‘Faringdon Folly’ newspaper)
Cast (in order of appearance):
Alice - Naomi Bullock
Big Sister - Natalie Keith
White Rabbit - Anna MacKenzie
Mouse - Lois Wells
Eaglet - Oliver Wells
Owl - Lizzy Bowman
Dodo - Kathryn Whiffen
Lory - Emma Barlow
Puffin - Amy Gerry
Knave - Lucy Walden
Queen - Jo Webster
King - Rob Stredder
Frog Footman - Gary Thompson
Fish Footman - Joan Lee
Duchess - Dave Headey
Cheshire Cat - Carolyn Taylor
Mad Hatter - Dominic Bullock
March Hare - Peter Webster
Dormouse - Eleanor Morton
Soldier - Ashley Bates
Gryphon - Christina Willett
Mock Turtle - Claire Green
Tweedledee (soldier) - Mike Durham
Tweedledum (soldier) - Roger Leitch
Caterpillar - Joel Keith
Chorus - Sophie Durham; Naomi Mead; Debbi Merrick; Alex Oliver; Rosie Oliver; Lizzie Parrington; Katherine Smith; Catherine Walden; Rebecca Whiffen
Cats - Becky Allen; Sammy Allen; Sarah Barlow; Zoe Barker; Rhian Boughtwood; Kelly Gardiner; Rebecca Lock; Naomi Phillips; Kealy Whenray
Orchestra - Debra Warner; Richard Lock; Jim Horton; Felicity Hainge
See programme for further details.
Production No.129 - 8 shows were performed over 6 days.