Canada's Tout à Trac to perform "Alice in Wonderland" in December
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Alice refuses to do her homework. She prefers to play and daydream in her father's study room where she stumbles across a strange rabbit that nibbles on books. Trying to stop it from eating books, Alice follows the rabbit into its rabbit hole. She chases it through its burrow and discovers a wonderland where she encounters many strange and fascinating characters.
In this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic "Alice in Wonderland", the setting is no longer a garden but a library full of pop-up books. The audience will be amazed as each book becomes a door to the next adventure in which they can follow the rabbit.
Canadian troupe Tout à Trac has been exploring storytelling, mask theatre and puppetry through a style of theatre in which imagination is at the core of the creative process since 1998. In 2008, it created a unique adaptation of the classic "Alice in Wonderland", which won the Acadie-Rideau Award in Canada in the same year and has been performed more than 425 times in Canada, the United States, Asia and the Middle East.
Details of the performances are as follows:
December 9 and 10 (Friday and Saturday), 7.30pm
December 10 and 11 (Saturday and Sunday), 3pm
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Tickets: $140 to $240
"Acting with Mask Workshop"
(In English with simple Cantonese interpretation)
December 11 (Sunday), 11am
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Tickets: $80
Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, "Alice in Wonderland" (in English with Chinese and English surtitles) is one of the attractions of the "Cheers!" Series. Tickets are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/f_entertainment/program_1249.html.
A post-performance talk (in English) will be held after the performance on December 9. Members of the audience are welcome to stay behind for the session.
Ends/Friday, November 4, 2016
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