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adaptado por los profesores de inglés
Carolina Moreno y David Martínez
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ALICE´S
ADVENTURES IN
WONDERLAND
ACT
1
(In
the garden)
NARRATOR:
It was a hot day and Alice, a little and happy girl, is sitting with
her sister, who is reading under a tree.
(Alice
is playing with her cat and her sister is reading)
ALICE´S
SISTER:
William Darcy could not stop thinking about Elizabeth Bennet. Her wit
and her spirit held him as captive as her beauty. He did not see
someone so attractive as her in his life….
ALICE:
How boring! A book with no pictures!
ALICE´S
SISTER:
Alice! Stop bothering! It is a beautiful book!
ALICE:
Ok…I feel sleepy….
(Alice
sits comfortably and falls asleep)
(MUSIC)
NARRATOR:
Then, suddenly a White Rabbit runs close to her. He is looking at his
watch saying:
WHITE
RABBIT:
I´m late! I´m late!
ALICE:
A rabbit with a watch…how strange! Wait Mr. Rabbit!
WHITE
RABBIT:
No time to say “hello” or goodbye”!
NARRATOR:
Alice runs after the rabbit, and when she was about to catch it, he
goes inside a hole under a tree. Alice follows the rabbit and goes
inside too.
CURTAINS
ACT
2
(In
a corridor full of doors of different sizes)
WHITE
RABBIT:
(running) I´m late! I´m late!
(The
rabbits gets into a door)
(Alice
appears running)
NARRATOR:
Alice is now in a big room with doors of different sizes. She tries
to open them.
(Alice
tries to open doors)
ALICE:
All the doors are locked! How can I go out from here? Oohh…a table!
And there is a key…
(She
takes the key and tries to open doors until she opens the small one.
She has a look through it)
ALICE:
Oooh! A beautiful garden! I want to go there but I am too big!
oohh…and there I can see the White Rabbit!
(Coming
back to the room, she looks around, and on the table she finds a
bottle)
ALICE:
A bottle! It says DRINK ME…
(She
drinks from it)
NARRATOR:
Alice drinks from the bottle and now she is small and she can go into
the hole to get the garden.
(Alice
gets into the garden through the small door)
CURTAIN
ACT
3
(In
the garden)
(Alice
is in the garden looking around when she sees the rabbit again)
WHITE
RABBIT:
The Duchess must be angry! I am late again!
ALICE:
Mr. Rabbit! Mr. Rabbit! Wait please! Just a moment! Listen to me!
(The
rabbit disappears)
(Alice
goes on walking in the garden)
NARRATOR:
Alice is walking in the garden when she meets other strange animals:
a duck, a mouse and a parrot.
PARROT:
Hello girl! What´s your name?
ALICE:
Hello! My name is Alice
PARROT:
Let´s run a race!
MOUSE:
Yes! Let´s run in circle!
(Everybody
starts running in circle)
(MUSIC)
(After
a while running…the parrot says…)
PARROT:
The race is over!
MOUSE:
Who is the winner?
PARROT:
Everybody is the winner and gets a prize
DUCK:
And what is the prize? Who has got the prize?
PARROT:
Alice! (pointing at Alice)
NARRATOR:
Alice doesn´t know what to do. She puts her hand in her pocket and
takes out a box of sweets and offers it as a prize.
(She
gives the box to the parrot)
MOUSE:
And what about the girl? What is her prize?
PARROT:
It´s true! Alice, take this box as a prize.
NARRATOR:
They all cheer. Alice thinks everything is very strange, they are
crazy! But she continues the game.
ALICE:
Thank you! It´s an honour for me to accept this beautiful box.
DUCK:
Time to go! Goodbye Alice!
MOUSE:
Goodbye!
PARROT:
Goodbye!
ALICE:
Goodbye!
CURTAINS
ACT
4
(In
the garden)
(Alice
goes on walking. The White Rabbit appears again)
WHITE
RABBIT:
The Duchess! The Duchess! She will be angry! Where are my gloves??
(The
rabbit looks around like looking for something. Then, she sees Alice)
WHITE
RABBIT:
Mary Ann! What are you doing? Go home and bring my gloves!
(The
white rabbit says this while playing a trumpet)
NARRATOR:
The White Rabbit thinks Alice is his servant. Alice is frightened and
runs to the White Rabbit´s house.
(The
rabbit disappears)
(Alice
is in the house. Outside she sees a bottle and drinks from it. She
enters the house and when she is in, she becomes big. Alice takes her
arms and legs out of the house)
ALICE:
Ooohhh nooo! I´m big again!
(The
rabbit approaches with other animals, who can be the animals that
appeared before: the mouse, the duck and the parrot)
WHITE
RABBIT:
Oooh nooo! I´ts horrible! We must burn the house!
(The
rabbit and the animals start throwing stones to the house)
NARRATOR:
Alice doesn´t understand anything, but she notices that the stones
are turning into cakes and she has an idea.
ALICE:
If I eat one of these cakes, maybe I become small again.
(She
takes one cake and eats it. She becomes small and gets out of the
house)
NARRATOR:
Alice is out of the house again and goes to the garden again.
CURTAINS
ACT
5
(In
the garden. A lot of flowers)
NARRATOR:
Alice
is walking through the garden when she meets a group of beautiful
flowers.
ALICE:
Oooh…how beautiful!
FLOWER
1:
Yes…it really is!
ALICE:
Excuse me…can you speak?
FLOWER
2:
Of course we can speak!
FLOWER
3:
And we can sing and dance too!
FLOWER
1: Do
you want to listen to a song?
ALICE:
Yes! Of course!
(MUSIC. COREOGRAPHY: ALL FLOWERS
DANCING WITH ALICE)
ALICE:
Wonderful! (Clapping her hands)
FLOWER
2:
What type of flower are you?
ALICE:
I am an Alice
FLOWER
3:
I have never seen an Alice!
FLOWER
1:
You have a strange colour!
FLOWER
2:
And no smell… (smelling her)
FLOWER
3:
But she is pretty
(All
this while they are around her…like examining her)
ALICE:
Ok…I am not a flower!
FLOWER
1:
Just as I suspected!
FLOWERS:
OOOOh…noooo! Go away!
ALICE:
You are very unfriendly! (very angry)
NARRATOR:
Alice leaves the flowers behind and continues her way.
CURTAINS
ACT
6
(In
the garden)
ALICE:
I am very small. I have to eat something to get my normal size again.
NARRATOR:
Near there, there is a mushroom with a large blue caterpillar,
sitting on the top smoking a big hookah. The caterpillar and Alice
looks at each other. At last the caterpillar asks.
CATERPILLAR:
Who are you?
ALICE:
I don´t know. My size changes all the time. Now I am very small.
CATERPILLAR:
I don´t understand.
ALICE:
I can´t explain myself. It´s strange.
CATERPILLAR:
Yes, it is. But now, tell me: who are you?
ALICE:
First, who are you?
CATERPILLAR:
Why?
ALICE:
Goodbye! (Alice is very angry)
CATERPILLAR:
Come back! I want to tell you something.
ALICE:
Ok, what?
CATERPILLAR:
Look at this mushroom. If you eat from one side, you get small. If
you eat from the other, you get bigger.
NARRATOR:
Alice cuts two pieces of the mushroom, one from each side. Then, she
eats a little from each piece until she gets her normal size.
(Alice
does this while the narrator is speaking)
ALICE:
Oooh! Now I am in my normal size! Thank you Mr. Caterpillar! Goodbye!
CATERPILLAR:
Goodbye!
CURTAINS
ACT
7
(In
the garden)
NARRATOR:
Alice keeps on walking through the garden. Suddenly she sees a large
cat. He was smiling. It is the Cheshire Cat.
(The
cat is sitting under a tree)
ALICE:
Hello! Can you tell me which way to go, please?
CHESIRE
CAT:
Hahahahaha…it depends on where you want to go.
ALICE:
I don´t care…
CHESHIRE
CAT:
If you go to the North, you will meet the Hatter. If you go to the
South, you will meet the March Hare. They are mad!
ALICE:
But I don´t like mad people…
CHESHIRE
CAT:
We are all mad here. I am mad. You are mad (pointing at her). Tell
me, do you want to play croquet with the Queen?
ALICE:
I like croquet…but I don´t know
CHESHIRE
CAT:
You will see me there.
(The
cat goes away laughing)
CHESHIRE
CAT:
Hahahahahah…
CURTAINS
ACT
8
(In
the garden)
NARRATOR:
Alice keeps on walking and finds a table in front of a house. The
March Hare and the Hatter are having tea. Alice approaches them.
(MUSIC.
THE CHARACTERS HAVING TEA AND DANCING)
(Alice
approaches them)
MARCH
HARE AND THE HATTER:
There is no room for you girl!!
ALICE:
Of course there is! I can sit on this chair.
(Alice
sits down on a chair)
ALICE:
My name is Alice
MARCH
HARE:
Then, drink some wine, Alice!
ALICE:
But there is only tea!
HATTER:
What day is today?
ALICE:
It´s Monday
HATTER:
My watch says it is Wednesday!
(He
puts his watch in the tea)
ALICE:
What a funny watch. It tells the day but not the time!
HATTER:
Have some tea, Alice.
ALICE:
But, what are you celebrating?
MARCH
HARE:
Today it is my No-Birthday.
ALICE:
What a nonsense! Then, it is my Non-Birthday too!
HATTER:
Really??? So…happy No-Birthday!
(MUSIC; COREOGRAPHY)
(The
rabbit appears playing the trumpet)
WHITE
RABBIT:
I am late!
(The
hatter takes his watch)
HATTER:
Your watch is stopped! But I can fix it!
(The
hatter puts the watch on the table)
HATTER:
Pass me the butter!
MARCH
HARE:
Here you are!
HATTER:
And now a bit of sugar…
MARCH
HARE:
Yes! Perfect!
HATTER:
Lemon…
MARCH
HARE:
And the watch is….
(Through
the dialogue the rabbit says: “No no no”…”Be careful!”)
(Finally
the watch is broken…destroyed…)
WHITE
RABBIT:
Ohh…noooo…a disaster!
(The
white rabbit goes away, sad and angry…and Alice follows him)
CURTAINS
ACT
9
(In
the garden. There are some trees)
NARRATOR:
Finally, Alice decides to continue her way. The Hatter and the March
Hare are really mad. In her way, Alice finds a garden with rose trees
and three poker cards, who are gardeners, painting the roses red.
Alice approaches to them.
(MUSIC)
ALICE:
Why are you painting the roses?
POKER
CARD TWO:
The Queen hates white roses.
POKER
CARD SEVEN:
She only likes red roses.
POKER
CARD FIVE:
We must paint the roses or the Queen will cut off our heads!
(A
trumpet is heard)
POKER
CARD SEVEN:
Look! The Queen!
(The
cards, the queen and king, the rabbit….appears like in military
formation)
MUSIC. COREOGRAPHY
(The
cards open a corridor, and the rabbit appears playing the trumpet and
announces the queen)
WHITE
RABBIT:
With you, your majesty the Queen of Hearts…and the King!
(They
appear along the corridor)
QUEEN:
What´s your name girl?
ALICE:
My name is Alice, your Majesty.
QUEEN:
And who are these? (pointing at the gardener poker cards)
ALICE:
I don´t know.
QUEEN:
Cut off her head!
(The
rest of people on stage repeat the same: cut off her head!)
KING:
One moment! She is only a girl!
QUEEN:
If she can play croquet, I will forgive her!
(The
white rabbit plays the trumpet announcing the game and all the cards
stand in formation)
(Characters
brings the mallets and the balls and a game of croquet starts)
NARRATOR:
Everything is strange. The balls are hedgehogs and the mallets are
flamingos. People begins running in all directions, tumbling up
against each other.
(Characters
running on stage. Playing croquet. Tumbling against each other. The
Queen repeating all the time: Cut off his head!)
MUSIC
NARRATOR:
Alice is playing as best as she can and she beats the Queen. The
Queen gets very angry.
QUEEN:
Cut off her head!
ALICE:
You can´t leave me with no head! I want to be judged! I have the
right!
QUEEN:
Very well, let´s go to my palace!
CURTAIN
ACT
10
(In
the palace)
(The
Queen and the King are sitting down on their thrones. The rest of
characters are the jury are sit on one side. A lot of poker cards in
formation too. Alice enters and places herself in front of them. She
sits down on the floor)
WHITE
RABBIT:
(Reading from a paper) Your Majesty, members of the jury…and the
King. Alice is accused of having won croquet to our majesty, the
Queen of Hearts. Let´s call the first witness: the hatter.
QUEEN:
Do you know Alice?
HATTER:
Alice?? Who is Alice?? Do you want some tea?? (offering a cup of tea
to the queen)
QUEEN:
Next witness!!
WHITE
RABBIT: Next witness: the parrot
QUEEN:
Did you play croquet with Alice?
PARROT:
Croquet?? Noooo…I prefer races!
NARRATOR:
Alice is frightened but has an idea: she takes out a piece of
mushroom from her pocket and eats it. Then, she gets bigger.
(Alice
does this while the narrator is speaking. When she becomes bigger she
stands up, like showing she is big)
QUEEN:
Cut off her head! (pointing Alice)
ALICE:
You can´t! I am big!
QUEEN:
Be quiet!
ALICE:
No!!
(Then,
all the poker cards stand up and go towards Alice. She tries to fight
against them but she can´t.)
CURTAIN
ACT
11
(In
the garden)
SISTER:
Alice! Alice! Wake up!
ALICE:
Oooh…it was a dream….What a strange dream….it was about a
rabbit…a queen….
SISTER:
What an imagination Alice! Let´s go home.
(The
two sisters stand up and start walking home)
CURTAIN
THE
END