As a curious variety of guests arrive Lewis Carroll consoles Alice. But Alice’s mother accuses Jack of stealing it and dismisses him. He gives her a rose and she gives him a jam tart.
One of them, Alice, is friends with the gardener’s boy, Jack. At the Liddell family’s garden party, Lewis Carroll, a family friend, entertains three young sisters with a story and magic tricks. You’ll see the likes of John Tenniel’s original Alice sketches and early artwork for the 1951 Disney adaptation, along with more out-there fare like Salvador Dali’s surrealist sketches of the characters.Oxford, 1862. Spanning art, film, performance, fashion, and photography, the exhibit is nothing if not ambitious. The exhibition moves from the early origins of the Alice in Wonderland story to the myriad adaptations and interpretations the world has seen in the 150 years since Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published. Which sounds pretty special, to be honest.
The museum has promised “theatrical staging” that provides “an immersive and mind-bending journey down the rabbit hole”.
Yes, there’s been an extra long lead-in to this one (dubbed Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, it was originally scheduled for June 2020), but it looks to be well worth the wait. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London SEE ALSO: The London Bookshop Dedicated Entirely To Alice In Wonderland Alice at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, by John Tenniel, 1865. Now in place at the V&A Museum is a major exhibition dedicated to Alice in Wonderland that’s ready to dazzle Londoners. Anyway, though Tokyo and Jake are both up in the air for 2021, there’s one very exciting arrival that has already reached London. Well, I guess one out of three ain’t bad, given there’s no way we could have predicted a pandemic when we first wrote those words. “There’s plenty of things to look forward to in 2020: the Tokyo Olympics, Jake Gyllenhaal in a London musical, and hopefully possibly a new US president”. Fall down the rabbit hole at Alice in Wonderland at the V&A.
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