Script Alice Through The Looking Glass Senior.pdf - Musicline

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Alice
Red King
Red Queen
White King
White Queen
Red Knight
White Knight
Tiger Lily
Rose
Violet
Lupin
Tweedledee
Tweedledum
Humpty Dumpty
Hare
Hatter
Chorus of:-Pawns, Daisies, Words (10)
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Scene One
Scene Two
Scene Three
Scene Four
Scene Five
Scene Six
Scene Seven
CONTENTS
Through The Looking Glass
Song 1 Looking Glass Alice
Looking Glass Land
Song 2 Let’s Have a Chess Game Red King, Queen & Knight,
White King, Queen & Knight
& Chorus of Pawns.
The Garden
Song 3 Myriad, Multi-coloured, Tiger Lily, Rose, Violet, Lupin
Multi-hued
& Chorus of Daisies
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Song 4 Two Fat Boys Tweedledee & Tweedledum
Song 5 Impossible is Possible Company
Humpty Dumpty
Song 6 Words! Words! Words Alice, Tweedledee, Tweedledum,
Hare, Hatter, & Chorus of Words.
The Inventorium
The Palace
Song 7 Coronation Anthem The Company
Scene Eight Back Home
Song 8 Reprise: Looking Glass Alice
Song 9 Finale: Let’s Have a Chess Game The Company
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SOUND AND LIGHT F/X
There are many opportunities for imaginative sound and lighting effects throughout the show - eg.
the song of the flowers [Myriad, Multi-coloured] etc.
Specific effects are needed for Looking-Glass transformation at the beginning and end i.e. Scene 1 &
Scene 8, for the sky darkening and wing flapping, hurricane of the crow and the Dream Box.
PROPS LIST
Scene Two
Chess Pieces
Inventions in the Jumble Corner:-
1. Indoor Lighthouse
2. Whisker Fan
3. Dream Box
Scene Three
Self-raising Hat [White Knight]
Winter foot-warmer for ducks [White Knight]
Porridge de-lumper [White Knight]
Scene Four
Two whistles on cord [Tweedledee and Tweedledum]
Scene Seven
Crown and Sceptre [One of the Royal party
]
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SCENE ONE - THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
(Alice is discovered at the Looking Glass)
Alice:
Song 1 - Looking Glass
Looking-glass, looking-glass, what do you see?
Do I look at you, or do you look at me?
Looking-glass, looking-glass, show me a sign -
Whose world is real, yours or mine? (END OF SONG)I
It’s ever so funny in the Looking-Glass world; first, there’s the room you
can see through the glass - it’s just the same as our drawing-room,
only the things go the other way. And my jumble corner, where I keep
all my toys and lost bits of games, is in the opposite corner.
And the chess pieces...(She picks up a chess piece - set on the
mantelpiece, if there is one) .. are all inside out. But wouldn’t it be an
adventure to get through into the Looking-Glass world and see how
things really are there..
Now let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through the Looking-Glass.
let’s pretend the glass has gone all soft, so that I can get through. Why,
it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare...(lighting transformation
starts - smoke if possible)It’ll be easy enough to climb through...(the
transformation continues as Alice climbs through the mirror)... my
goodness! I am through! (transformation finishes) I’m in Looking-
Glass Land!
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SCENE TWO - LOOKING-GLASS LAND
Alice:
Pieces:
White King:
White Queen:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
Red King:
Pieces:
Red King:
White King:
Red Queen:
White Queen:
Pieces:
Red Queen::
White King:
Red Queen:
Alice:
King:
Queen:
King:
(Music starts) What’s happening? (Enter red King, red Queen, red
Knight, white King, white Queen, and chorus of chess pieces
(pawns, castles, etc)
Song Two - Let’s Have A Chess Game
Let’s have a Chess Game, a Chess Game, a Chess Game!
Let’s have a battle of wits, and a Game of Chess!
I’m the White King, as you all well know.
I’m the White Queen, and you’re treading on my toe!
I’m the Red Queen...
I’m the Red Knight!
I’m the Red King, and I’m looking for a fight!
Let’s have a Chess Game, a Chess Game, a Chess Game!
Let’s have a battle of wits, and a Game of Chess!
We’ve had jolly good games before-
And jolly good games to come.
And some we still don’t know who lost or won...
What jolly good fun!
Let’s have a Chess Game, a Chess Game, a Chess Game!
Let’s have a battle of wits, and a
Wonderful, inviting
Excessively exciting
Game of Chess!
Yes! Yes! (END OF SONG)
White King, as victor in the last contest, it is my privilege to challenge
you to another.
Challenge accepted, Red Queen. As loser of the last contest, it is my
privilege to make the first move.
Very well, let us all retire to our respective squares, and commence
play.
(All except white king & queen, exit. Singing the first refrain of the
chess song (unaccompanied - repeat ad lib, fading as they exit)
the White Knight goes to the jumble corner & falls asleep)
Honestly - they walk about as if they can’t see me. I feel somehow as if
I were invisible...oh, sorry! (she bumps into the King, knocking him
over) Let me help you up. (she does so. The King shrieks)
Aaaaaah!
What is it?
Mind the volcano.
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Queen:
King:
Queen:
Alice:
King:
Queen:
King:
Queen:
King:
Queen:
King:
Alice:
White Knight:
Alice:
White Knight::
Alice:
White Knight:
What volcano?
Blew so strong it lifted me to my feet.
Volcano fiddlesticks! (she knocks him down) There. Now mind you
get up the regular way - don’t get blown up.
Oh, you silly King! I’d better pick you up again. (Does so)
Aaaah! There it goes again!
If I’d seen it with someone else’s eyes, I’d never have believed it!
I assure you, my dear, I turned cold to the end of my whiskers.
You haven’t got any whiskers.
The horror of that moment I shall never, never forget.
You will unless you write it down.
True. We must record it in the Court Archives. Come, my dear. (Both
exit)
Come back! Oh dear, I don’t think they can see me either. (There is a
loud snore from the jumble corner) That sounded like a snore.
(Another snore) Yes, and it came from the Jumble Corner. I wonder
who it is...(shouts)...HELLO! (There is a spluttering, waking-up
sound and the white knight emerges) Goodness, who are you?
You see before you the White Knight, gentleman eccentric, faller-off of
horses, and inventor extraordinary.
I remember now. You fell out of my chess set into my Jumble Corner.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, child. This is my Inventorium.
Here I live and here I invent. Now this...(moving to a strange Emmettlike
contraption)...is a really useful invention. It’s an indoor lighthouse.
You observe - a bucket with a hole in one side, and a long wooden
handle. I place a lighted candle inside the bucket and run round and
round with it. Now I can rest easy knowing that shipping is safe in my
living room.
And this (indicating box) is my latest. I call it my Dream Box because
it shows you your dreams, so you can remember them.
But wait, child. Something here is not quite right - ah, yes, my scientific
eye has spotted it straight away. You’re the wrong way round.
Oh dear: I don’t feel the wrong way round at all, but if I’m in Looking-
Glass Land, then I’m sure I must be. What can I do about it?
Let’s see. Well, for a start, you’ll have to have your feet changed
over...like this. (crosses his legs, Alice does the same)Then, of
course, your thumbs need to point the opposite way. (Alice gets her
hands in a tangle) How about your ears? Can you change them over?
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Alice:
White Knight:
Alice:
White Knight:
Alice:
I don’t think so.
Ah, well, there’s just one thing left. You’ll have to play the game, get to
the 8th square, and become a Queen.
Oh! How do I start?
You already have. And so have I. I must find my horse - don’t know
why, I keep falling off him. ‘Bye. (Exits)
I wonder which way I go from here. I’ll try the garden. (walks) That’s
curious! The more I walk towards the garden, the further away it gets.
But, of course! So it would through the Looking-Glass! I’ll try walking
away from it. (walks backwards) Yes - that’s done it; here comes the
garden now!
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SCENE THREE - THE GARDEN
Alice:
Tiger Lily:
Alice:
Violet:
Daisies:
Rose:
Lupin:
Violet:
Alice:
Tiger Lily:
Alice:
Rose:
Alice:
Violet:
Lupin:
Tiger Lily:
Tiger Lily:
Lupin:
Rose:
Violet:
Tiger Lily:
All 4:
Alice:
(Enter Tiger-Lily, Rose, Violet, Lupin and chorus of daisies)
But only flowers - no-one to talk to. O Tiger-Lily, I wish you could talk.
I can talk, when there’s anyone worth talking to.
And can all the flowers talk?
As well as you can.
(Together) Didn’t you know that? Didn’t you know that?
Be quiet, you daisies.
They’re the worst of all. When one speaks, they all speak.
You see, the ground here is very hard.
(Feeling it) So it is.
In most gardens the beds are too soft - so the flowers are always
asleep.
I never thought of that.
It’s my opinion you never think at all.
Yes, I do.
How can you, when you’re always moving about?
You have to keep ever so still to think properly.
Take us, for instance. We’re brilliant thinkers.
Song Three - Myriad, Multi-coloured, Multi-hued
Orange and green and blue and red
Are the colours you’ll find in a flowers bed.
So the thoughts you’ll find in a flower’s head
Are myriad, multi-coloured, multi-hued,
Multiplied into a multitude,
Yes, every thought is rainbow-hued
To every flower in the garden.
(All the flowers sing:-)
Russet, magenta, oyster-shell
Are the colours that suit us so very well.
So the thoughts you’ll find in a cowslip’s bell
Are myriad, multi-coloured, multi-hues,
Multiplied into a multitude,
Yes, every thought is rainbow-hued
To every flower in the garden!
Are there any other people in the garden besides me?
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Tiger Lily:
Rose:
Alice:
Lupin:
Alice:
Violet:
Daisies:
Alice:
Rose:
Daisies:
Alice:
There’s one other flower that can move about like you.
She’s one of the thorny kind.
Where does she wear the thorns?
Why, all around her head, of course.
Oh - you must mean a crown.
She’s coming - I can hear her footsteps.
Footsteps, footsteps, hear her footsteps.
(Enter Red Queen, Backwards)
It’s the Red Queen. I think I’ll go and meet her. (She walks towards
Red Queen, who exits.)
I should advise you to walk the other way.
Other way, other way!
What nonsense! (She walks in the same direction. The Flowers
exit.) Oh, now the flowers have gone as well. But, of course - I keep
forgetting. It’s Looking Glass land and I have to walk in the opposite
direction to where I want to go. Here goes.
(She walks backwards in a semi-circle. The Red Queen enters, backwards, walking
the other half of the semi-circle. In the middle, they bump back-to-back.)
Red Queen:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Where do you come from?
I’ve lost my way.
I don’t know what you mean by your way. All the ways round here
belong to me.
Please, your Majesty. can you tell me how to get to the 8th square?
Now a pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know. So you’ll go
very quickly through the Third Square and you’ll find yourself in the
Fourth Square in no time. That square belongs to Tweedledum and
Tweedledee - the Fifth is mostly water - the Sixth belongs to Humpty
Dumpty - the Seventh Square is all forest - however, one of the Knights
will show you the way - and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens
together and it’s all feasting and fun!
Oh, how lovely!
Not all lovely - you must watch out for the Red Knight!
The Red Knight? Why?
Well, you see, one of my Red Knights is a gentle, timorous creature
who never shows his face anywhere. But the other - Lord love us, he’s
fierce and warlike, and crotchety with it. If he captures you, and he’s in
one of his foul moods, he’ll gobble you up, bones and all.
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Alice:
But he’s your Knight, your Majesty - can’t you control him?
Red Queen: You should know no chess piece controls anther’s movements -
especially one who moves as crazily as the Red Knight.
Alice:
Red Queen:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
Red Queen:
Alice:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
Red Queen:
Red Knight:
How does he move?
Ah, that’s his one weakness. You can always hear him coming,
because his battle cry is 1-2-hop, 1-2-hop.
Why, to be sure, that’s how a knight moves in chess!
Though sometimes, just to be contrary, he goes hop-1-2, hop-1-2. But
usually it’s....
(Off stage) 1-2-hop, 1-2-hop.
You said that without moving your lips.
Said what?
(Off stage) 1-2-hop, 1-2-hop.
That wasn’t me - it’s the Red Knight! Quick, run!
Where to?
Anywhere!
(Alice runs off. Enter Red Knight, hopping)
1-2-hop! 1-2-hop! Aha! I’m sure there’s a new pawn around here
somewhere, and that’s good news, ‘cos I’m in a foul mood, and feel like
gobbling her up, bones and all! (To Queen) Oi, you!
Don’t you “Oi, you!” me, you - you subservient servant! I am your
Queen and demand to be treated with respect.
Respect? Ha-ha-ha-hop! Ha-ha-ha-hop!
We are not amused by your attitude - especially when the new pawn is
a pretty little girl called Alice.
Alice, eh? I think she would go well in a marinade with oysters,
whitebait and brown paper.
Ooh! The greatest mistake I ever made was to dub you Knight! You’re
nasty, objectionable - and your presence offends us! Goodbye! (She
sweeps out.)
(Mimicking) Oh, your presence offends us, hoity-toity! Well, watch out,
Alice - ‘cos I’m after you!
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Alice:
Red Knight:
Alice:
Red Knight:
Alice:
(Entering backwards) Oh, dear I’m walking the wrong way!
(Seizing her)Aha, hop! Got you, hop!
Oh, please sir, let me go!
Let you go, hop? Never - you’re pretty enough to eat: in fact I may
gobble you up, bones and all!
Help! Help!
(Enter the White Knight. He carries three curious objects with labels on, which he
drops as he sees Alice’s plight.)
White Knight:
Red Knight:
White Knight:
Red Knight:
White Knight:
Red Knight:
White Knight:
Red Knight:
Alice:
White Knight:
Alice:
White Knight:
Alice:
Desist, Red Knight! So dastardly villain, up to your tricks again?
This pawn is mine. I captured her fair and square.
And now I have captured you, and I claim your prisoner by the laws of
Chess, Chivalry and the Railway Timetable.
She’s mine, and no ancient crumbly is going to take her from me.
Hand her over, or I shall invent something that will put an end to your
villainy once and for all. I shall invent a potion that when I pour it into
your armour turns you into a tin of red salmon!
Oh, no!
Oh, yes!
Oh, misery me, hop! I’m off, hop! But I warn you - pawn Alice has a
long way to go, and I’ll be back - badder and bolder than ever. Ha, ha,
ha - exit left, hop! (Exits)
Oh, thank you, you dear White Knight. you saved my life. There are so
many surprises here, I begin to wonder what will happen next...
Come, my dear, I’d better escort you through this square - as you see it
can be very dangerous. Though I’m surprised Tweedledum and
Tweedledee haven’t showed up. They’re good at fighting - usually each
other.
Who are they?
Two very fat boys - cousins, they are and always up to mischief. You
may meet them - then again, you may not. This way, my dear. (Starts
to exit. Alice follows, the wrong way)
I’ll get the hang of this soon! (Follows him backwards and exits.)
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SCENE FOUR - TWEEDLEDEE AND TWEEDLEDUM
(Enter Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Each has a whistle on a string round his neck.)
Both:
Song Four - Two Fat Boys
Two fat boys, two porky people,
Two enormous cousins Tweedledee and Dum.
Two fat boys, always in trouble -
Look out, everybody, here we come!
Two fat boys, two spreading tummies,
Too much cake and too much fizz, and too much pop!
Two fat boys, tubby and chubby,
Once we’re on the move we’re hard to stop!
Dee:
Dum:
Both:
This fat boy’s called Tweedledee,
This fat boy’s called Tweedledum.
Step aside, or you will find that
You’ll be flattened by a big fat tum!
(Dance)
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
Dee:
Both:
Dum:
Dee:
Both:
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
Big cream buns make us fatter,
Thin folks stop and star.
Think we’re mad as a hatter-
Pass the butter-dish, ‘cos we don’t care!
Two fat boys, we never diet,
We just love our fish’n’chips, and saveloys.
Come on folks, if you just try it,
You could be as fat as
Two fat boys! (End of song)
Do you see what I see, Tweedledee?
Nohow, Tweedledum. My eyes don’t belong to your head.
(Going over to White Knight’s dropped objects) I see a collection of
strange objects.
(Looking at audience) You’re right. I think they’re called ‘an audience’.
Not out there. Here.
(Looking at objects) You’re right. What a heap of tatterphilia. Let’s
examine them. (They do so.)
What’s this? (Reads label) Self raising hat.
(Picking up an object and reading the label) Winter foot-warmers
for ducks.
(Doing the same) Porridge de-lumper.
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Dee:
White Knight:
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
White Knight:
Dum:
Dee:
White Knight:
Dee:
White Knight:
Dee:
White Knight:
Dum:
Dee:
Dum:
White Knight:
Dee:
Dum:
White Knight:
Dum:
I wonder who they belong to?
(Enter white Knight)I
Ah, there they are - I’ve been looking for them everywhere. Good
morning, gentlemen, I am the White Knight, and those objects are my
inventions.
Tweedledum at your service. Eater of refinement and taste - unlike my
cousin here, who is no more than a dustbin.
Tweedledee at your service - and if he carries on like that, I shall punch
his fat head.
We were examining your curious devices...
Ah, yes, my inventions. Every hour, every minute my brain is active on
new ones. Shall I tell you the latest I have thought of? An underwater
scarecrow.
Crow!!! (He becomes an ‘Automaton’. With arms outstretched he
turns round and slowly throttles the White Knight) Like a horrible
black cloud the vicious bird blotted out the sky, and I fought it with all
my might...
Dum! Dum! Stop it, Dum! (He blows the whistle round his neck,
Dum snaps out of it.)
What was all that about?
He’s scared - of you know what.
What?
That bird you mentioned.
You mean ‘crow’?
Crow!! (Automaton throttling biz again) Like a horrible black cloud,
the vicious bird...
Dum! Stop it! (Blows his whistle. Dum snaps out of it) If it happens
again the only way to stop him is by whistling.
Apologies, my dear fellow. I tend to get carried away sometimes.
You don’t know your own strength. You positively made my teeth rattle.
Rattle!!! (Does same automaton/throttling biz as Dum) Slowly I
turned and fought off the villain who was trying to steal my rattle...
Dee! Stop it at once! (Blows his whistle. Dee snaps out of it.)
What’s the matter with him?
It’s his favourite toy, you see, and he always thinks people are going to
steal it.
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White Knight:
Dee:
White Knight:
Dum:
White Knight:
Dee:
White Knight:
Dum:
Dee:
White Knight:
Dum:
Dee:
Both:
White Knight:
Alice:
White Queen:
Alice:
White Queen:
Alice:
White Queen:
Why should anyone want to steal his rattle?
Rattle!! Slowly I turned... (Biz again. Dum blows his whistle. Dee
snaps out of it.)
You two are as daft as each other. One goes berserk when you
mention ‘crow’...
Crow!!! Like a horrible black cloud... (etc advances on White Knight.)
And the other gets all twisted because of a rattle...
Rattle!!! Slowly I turned... (etc. Advances on White Knight. Both
begin throttling him.)
(To audience) Quick, everyone - whistle! (Audience whistles. If
they’re too inhibited, White Knight can seize a whistle from Dum
or Dee and blow it. Either way, both snap out of it. As they do so
the lights start to dim.) You’ve made everything go black.
It’s not us.
Look up there! (He points.)
What is it? Looks like a big, black cloud.
It’s the crow! I’m off!
Likewise!
Nohow contrariwise! (Both run off. There is a noise of flapping
wings and loud wind.)
The wind’s getting up... (He starts to whirl, as if blown
about)...blowing me away! (He whirls off as Alice whirls on,
opposite. The sound effects subside)
What an enormous crow! When it flaps it’s wings it’s like a hurricane!
Thank goodness it’s flying away. Hello - it’s blowing someone my
way.(Enter the White Queen, totally dishevelled) Oh, your Majesty,
what a state you’re in. Let me put you right. (She adjusts the Queen’s
shawl, etc.)You should really have a lady’s maid.
I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure. Two pence a week and jam every
other day.
Very kind of you, but I don’t like jam.
You wouldn’t get it even if you did like it. The rule is, jam tomorrow and
jam yesterday - but never jam today. That’s one of the drawbacks of
living backwards.
Living backwards! I never heard of such a thing.
...but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both
ways.
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