Alice in wonderland is a classic story many of us will remember from our childhood. the original story was written by Lewis carol - originally titled Alice's adventures in wonderland and published in 1865. The story is about a young girl Alice Kingsley who visits a magical land - wonderland via falling down a rabbit hole. In wonderland Alice meets many mystical characters from the mad hatter, Tweedledee and dumb, the Cheshire cat and the evil red queen. Alice then awakens returning back to reality on the river bank with her sister.
Since Lewis carols book there have been a number of versions of Alice in wonder land including 22 adaptations for film and television including the Disney classic cartoon and the more recent Tim Burton version in 2010.
In our version of the classic I was cast as Dumelda twee a reality version of Tweedledum the twins.in film versions i have seen the twins are always together and talking in riddles throughout. nowadays these names Tweedledee and Tweedledum have become almost a nickname for people that look and act alike. they also have a poem which they recite in Lewis carols book :
- "Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- Agreed to have a battle;
- For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
- Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
- Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
- As black as a tar-barrel;
- Which frightened both the heroes so,
- They quite forgot their quarrel"
in both the book and later adaptations thee twins have primarily been male however in our version both sets of twins are female , However i feel this will be a modern twist on the classic and as long as we both talk in sync and act alike on stage we will hopefully be able to pull of the role .
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