Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is a 2001 stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. It was written by Adrian Mitchell. A 2 hour adaptation of both of Carroll's novels, it holds the distinction for currently being the most comprehensive stage adaptation of the books yet made, with the endings of both novels intact and only minor changes made for theatrical staging reasons.

Play inception
Mitchell's adaptation originated as a commission from the Royal Shakespeare Company. In his version, Mitchell uses a fictionalized version of the biographically famous "Golden Afternoon" on the 4th of July 1862, when Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) first told the stories that would become the Alice novels to his friend Canon Robinson Duckworth and the Liddell children, Alice, Lorina, and Edith. Dodgson wrote the stories down, and much later, presented the manuscript of Alice's adventures Underground to Alice Liddell in November 1864.

Act 1: Alice's adventures in Wonderland

 * "Golden afternoon" - Dodgson, Duckworth, Alice Liddell, Lorina Liddell, Edith Liddell and Company
 * "Down, Down, Down" - Company
 * "How Doth the Little Crocodile..." - Alice, Crocodile Voice
 * "Fury Said to a Mouse..." - Mouse and Company
 * "You are Old Father William...." - Father William, Youth
 * "Wow! Wow! Wow!" - Duchess, Cook, Baby, Cheshire Cat and Company
 * "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" - Hatter
 * "The Lobster Quadrille" - Mock Turtle, Gryphon and Company
 * "Beautiful Soup" - Mock Turtle, Gryphon and Company
 * "The Queen of Hearts..." - White Rabbit
 * "They told me you had been to her..." - White Rabbit

Act 2: Through the Looking-Glass

 * "Moonlight on the Mirror" - Alice and Company
 * "The Jabberwocky" - Alice, Father, Youth and Company
 * "Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee..." - Alice and Company
 * "The Walrus and the Carpenter" - Tweedle-Dum, Tweedle-Dee, Walrus, Carpenter and Company
 * "Humpty Dumpty..." - Alice
 * "In Winter when the fields are White..." - Humpty Dumpty
 * "The Lion and the Unicorn..." - Company
 * "Haddocks Eyes (A-sitting on a Gate)" - White Knight, Aged Aged Man
 * "Welcome Queen Alice" - White Rabbit and Company
 * "Hushaby Lady" - Red Queen, White Queen, Alice
 * "Golden Afternoon (Reprise) - Dodgson, Duckworth, Alice Liddell, Lorina Liddell, Edith Liddell and Company

Critical reception
The review in The Independent called the original 2001 Royal Shakespeare Company production "a magic-free tundra of non-idiosyncrasy" and its Alice, played by Katherine Heath, "charmless". The Guardian thought it faithful to Carroll's text, but called it a game of two halves, Wonderland working well enough, but that Looking-Glass went "off the boil."

Revivals
The play received a significant revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2010 by the Youth Theatre. This revival, unlike its premiere, received more positive reviews, the Angus noting Emily Dyble's "delightful" performance as Alice. The 2022 revival by ARTComedia and Jersey Arts centre also received a positive response, with the Bailwick Express Jersey observing "The sheer scale of the madness played out over the two hours beggars any kind of coherent description, as it should."