Alice's Adventures in the New World

Synopsis

It is 1882. You are a seventeen year-old girl and you have just discovered your deceased mother is still alive and living in America. You set off to find her and meet: a) an artist with an opium addiction b) a depressed Socialist preaching free love c) a hypochondriac debutante d) a cattle rustler whose four husbands have all mysteriously disappeared e) Oscar Wilde f) your mother or g) all of the above. Wherever you go, you seem to be the only one in the room not wearing a corset and things become curiouser and curiouser along the way.

Our Review:

5 March 2010

Fluff Productions presents for our pleasure Alice’s Adventures In The New World! And a pleasure it is in this witty music hall escapade. From Lily Arnold and Katherine Webb’s delectable costumes and artfully crumbling set to the sparky performances from this vibrant cast, this is a show that will blow away your winter cobwebs and jolly you into the spring to come, even if the ending is tangibly bittersweet.

Beneath a fragmented proscenium arch, in the blaze of copper footlights, our heroine travels around America in search of her absentee mother. On the way she encounters a cornucopia of grotesque and wonderful women in a world where it is better to be thought dead than divorced. How times have changed, or so we think, for as each character comes and goes it becomes disturbingly apparent that in some ways we haven’t moved on at all.

Sarah Sigal’s play cleverly skates along the surface of Alice’s Ad...