Peter and Alice
From: Saturday, 9th March 2013
To: Saturday, 1 June 2013
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Synopsis
When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan. In John Logan’s remarkable new play, enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of these two extraordinary characters.
Dame Judi Dench plays Alice, and Ben Whishaw plays Peter in Logan’s first new play since Red, which went on to win six Tony Awards in 2010.
Directed by Michael Grandage with set and costume design by Christopher Oram, Peter and Alice is running from 9 March to 1 June at the Noel Coward Theatre.
Book tickets now for this play which examines the real-life stories behind Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.
Other plays in the season are: Henry V, The Cripple of Inishmaan, A Midsummer Night's Dream & Privates on Parade
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 26 March 2013
Fans of the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, written by John Logan, will be thrilled to discover that the author has put M and Q – ie, Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw – back together again as an ageing Alice in Wonderland and a neurasthenic, withdrawn Peter Pan.
So, the second offering of the Michael Grandage season is almost certainly off to a box-office flyer though, despite the weather, this is not the first fun-filled Christmas show of the year.
Rather, it’s a tortured imagining of how the conversation might have gone when the two real life models for those inventions of Lewis Carroll and J M Barrie – Alice Liddell Hargreaves and Peter Llewelyn Davies – met, as they did, in a London bookshop in 1932.
Dame Judi’s Alice, now eighty, with untended wispy white hair and wrapped in a fur stole, reveals that...
Latest User Review
Paul Wallis - 26 April 2013:
Sometimes dull, sometimes charming, this is all about the two central performances. Judi Dench is excellent & Ben Whishaw better still. The play has its flaws but the performances are top notch...
Cast
Judi Dench (Alice Liddell Hargreaves)
Ben Whishaw (Peter Llewelyn Davies)
Olly Alexander
Ruby Bentall
Stefano Braschi
Nicholas Farrell
Derek Riddell
Creative
John Logan (Author)
Michael Grandage Company (Producer)
Michael Grandage (Director)
Christopher Oram (Design)
Adam Cork (Music)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
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