Wonderland: THE ALICE STORY: A PLay (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798187133239)

WONDERLAND NEEDS ALICE AGAIN.

THIS TIME, SHE IS NOT THE CHILD THEY REMEMBER.

Five years after the Queen of Hearts executes the White Queen and seizes control of Wonderland, the kingdom is collapsing. Gardens have been buried. Stories are losing their endings. Hope has become contraband. Rebellion has been repackaged as entertainment, and frightened citizens survive by applauding at the correct moments.

Wonderland's final hope is Alice.

There is only one problem.

Alice grew up.

She no longer remembers the magical kingdom, the terrified White Rabbit, the dying flowers, or the Mad Hatter who once helped send her through the Looking Glass. When the Hatter enters the human world to bring her back, the crossing strips away his memories-and Alice follows him into a Wonderland where everyone knows her name, everyone needs something from her, and no one wants to admit what they did.

Waiting beneath the familiar madness is a devastating secret.

Alice was never simply lost.

She was chosen.

Used.

Sent away.

And now Wonderland has selected another child to take her place.

Wonderland: The Alice Story is a dark, funny, politically explosive theatrical reimagining of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Robert Jerome Pagan transforms Lewis Carroll's iconic characters into survivors, collaborators, revolutionaries, failed leaders, frightened artists, and children forced to carry the consequences of adult decisions.

This is not the Wonderland of tea parties and harmless nonsense.

This is a kingdom where the Queen of Hearts calls fear safety. Where the White Court calls sacrifice protection. Where the Hatter drinks to forget. Where rebellion is performed nightly with a two-drink minimum. Where a child's imagination is treated as a natural resource-and everyone believes survival gives them the right to take it.

Alice has returned to save Wonderland.

But she may decide that Wonderland does not deserve to be saved-not until it learns to save its children first.

Sharp, theatrical, imaginative, and unapologetically contemporary, Wonderland: The Alice Story explores consent, childhood trauma, political oppression, institutional violence, memory, identity, inherited responsibility, artistic resistance, and the dangerous stories adults tell when they need children to forgive them.

Perfect for readers, actors, directors, theatre students, educators, literary drama enthusiasts, fantasy lovers, and anyone searching for a bold modern Alice in Wonderland adaptation.

Featuring the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, the March Hare, the Duchess, the Tweedles, living flowers, broken revolutionaries, and an Alice who has finally learned how to say no.

Wonderland remembers Alice.

Now Alice is going to make Wonderland remember what it did.