ALICE IN WONDERLAND

THEATRICAL SCRIPT

FIRST ACT

(A pleasant morning in March, Alice and her sister were proceeding with the class of
the story of Alice in the countryside, Alice's sister is heard reading the history book
for Alicia, while she plays and distracts herself, her sister scolds her.

- Alicia's sister (sitting on the grass makes a gesture of disgust): Alicia! Do you want
Pay attention to your history class?

Oh, how boring! How can I pay attention if that book has no pictures?

Sister: But, what a notion, the best books in this world have no drawings!

In this world maybe, but in my world the books would have only pictures.

- Sister: Your world? Ha! What nonsense

- Alicia: That's it! In my world, everything would be nonsense... You would be a person, like
all the others, and in my world, the flowers would sing and the songbirds would dance...

(Alicia lies down, while from the corner of her eye she sees what appears to be a rabbit running by.
white

Alicia: ...? Ah, but it's just a rabbit (turns excited) dressed, and with a watch! (Alicia ...
get up and run after the rabbit

White Rabbit: (excited) I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!

Alicia (doubtful): Mmmm how strange, why can it get late for a rabbit? ... Sir
rabbit, Mr. rabbit, please wait for me!

SECOND ACT

The rabbit runs down a long and narrow hallway in a hurry, Alice arrives at the entrance of
this, and doubt upon entering)

Alicia: Mr. Rabbit? Are you here? (enters the hallway)

Alicia leaves the hallway and finds herself in a narrow gallery.

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Alicia: How strange! What could this be?

He/She is standing in front of a small entrance door, much smaller than what
It should be so that this could fit. Try to open the door and a voice is heard.)

Door: Ouch! (makes a gesture of disgust)

Alicia: Excuse me, but I wanted to pass to the other side.

Door: There is no worry, but you are too big to pass through here. On the table there is
A jar that will help you, read the instructions, it will directly lead you where you want to go.
to direct you.

(Alicia reads the bottle which says 'drink me'.)

Alicia: Well, what’s the worst that can happen? (She drinks it)

(Alicia, with a face of surprise and fear at the same time, keeps getting smaller and smaller,
surprised.)

Door: Haven't you forgotten the key?

Alicia: What key!? (Forcefully passes to the other side of the door, stumbling)

THIRD ACT

Alicia is already in the forest, looking around to see if she can catch a glimpse of the
rabbit, behind her suddenly appear the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee)

Alicia: Where could she be, is she hiding? Where could she have gone?

(While turning to one side, the twins go the other way)

Alicia: Hmm, it's not here. Where could it be? Well... (turns around and sees the twins)
again in front of her.

Tweedledum: If you think we are joking, pay to see us.

Tweedledee

Tweedledee: If you think we're real, you have to talk to us.

Both: It is logical

Alicia: Well then, nice to meet you and goodbye

Goodbye is the last

Tweedledee: Yes, because the first thing in a visit is a handshake.

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Alicia leaves the stage very distractedly and runs so that the twins do not catch her.
they entertain themselves more, while they stayed talking. Alicia sees running in front of her the
white rabbit, which he follows in a hurry until he loses sight of it and finds himself among many
bushes, sees a small mushroom with the label 'eat me' on it and eats it, suddenly his
size starts to change until it becomes small)

FOURTH ACT

Alicia (Trying to get out of the bushes): I'm so small! At this size, I won't be able to...
never reach it. But, what rare butterflies... (In front of them a bunch of butterflies)

Rosa Mayor: Are you referring to the butterflies?

Alicia: Yes (the flowers behind her remain still) Where did that voice come from? But
What nonsense, flowers do not speak.

Rosa Mayor (leaning towards Alicia): Of course we talk, dear.

Purple flower (With a refined appearance): If someone is worthy of our attention.

Yellow flower (With a cheerful and carefree look): Let's loosen our tongues! Hehehe

All the flowers: If you want, we will sing you our best song.

Rosa Mayor (Starts to move her staff and gives the tone to the flowers, it can be heard in the background)
that the song begins, the flowers sing and Alicia participates, they finish, Alicia claps)

Alicia: Bravo! How beautiful!

Rosa Mayor: Thank you dear.

Yellow flower: And you, which garden are you from?

Alicia: I am not from any garden.

Lila Flower (Towards Greater Pink): Maybe it is a wildflower.

Alicia: I am not any wildflower.

Greater Rosa: Tell us what species, let’s say, genus or class you come from, dear.

Alicia: Well, I guess I'm human, my name is Alicia.

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Yellow flower: Have you seen any flower with a bud like that? And look, what a crown!
What a peculiar smell!

Alicia looks herself up and down and the yellow flower teases her to smell it and makes a gesture.
of disgust

Alicia: But I'm not a flower

Flor Lila: Aha! But I already suspected it! (whispers to the rose): It's nothing more than a
simple, common species

All the flowers (surprised): Ayno!

Alicia: A simple what?

Purple Flower: Just in case it's not clear to you, it's an herb.

Alicia: I'm not a weed! (crosses her arms)

The flowers whisper offensive comments to each other.

Yellow flower: Does not deserve to be among us

All the flowers: We don't want grass here! Go away!

Alicia: They're unruly, the problem is they have no manners! If I were my height.
normally I would start them!

Headmistress Rosa: Girls, girls behave yourselves!

The yellow flower pushes Alicia and she stumbles forward, the flowers laugh,
Alicia falls, gets up and leaves. She starts to walk and soon hears a deep voice reciting.
out loud the vowel letters, walk a little further and find a caterpillar on a large
mushroom. Alicia approaches to observe it.

FIFTH ACT

Caterpillar (bosteza): Who are you?

Alicia: I already know, sir, I feel so confused.

Caterpillar: I don't know either, explain yourself.

Alicia: It's just that you couldn't explain to me, sir, because I'm no longer myself.

Caterpillar: Have you gotten tangled up?

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Alicia: I can't explain myself more clearly because I don't understand myself either.

Caterpillar: You? Who are Y-O-U? (The caterpillar releases a kind of powder that makes Alice
I sneezed

Alicia: Acho! (face of displeasure, leaves).

Caterpillar (shouting): Hey girl, girl come here, I have something important to tell you!

Alicia: (returns) What does she want to tell me? What does she want?

Caterpillar: DON'T GET ANGRY.

Alicia: And is that all?

Caterpillar: No, exactly, what is it that worries you.

(Everything fills with smoke and the caterpillar's shoes appear over the mushroom, she is lying already in the
air converted into butterfly
Alicia (still doesn't see that she's transformed into a butterfly): Oh, what could have happened to her? (turns around)
up to the sky and see the caterpillar)

Caterpillar: I have some advice to give you, one side will make you grow, and the other will make you shrink.

Alicia: What about?

Caterpillar: From the mushroom! (the caterpillar leaves)

Alicia (goes to the mushroom and takes 1 piece from each side, stores them): one side will make me
grow, but which one will it be? I don't care! (eat from one of the pieces of the mushroom, it
grows too large, eats from the other and shrinks until it finds its ideal height): Thus
it's okay.

SIXTH ACT

Alicia: Let's see, where did I come from? So many paths are marked here (she sees a tree in which
there are many indications of different paths, turn in all directions and walk a little,
She peeks out from all sides and hears a voice behind her, she turns around.

Cat: Were you looking for something? (the cat appears standing with one hand leaning against a tree,
staring intently at Alicia and with the big smile that represents him

- Alicia: (Surprised) no, no, no, it was just me..

- Cat: It doesn't matter. (Mocking laughter) Hahaha

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But, if you are nothing but a cat

Cat: A cat, curly

Alicia: I just want to know which path I should take.

Cat: Well, it depends on where you want to go.

That doesn't matter, if you...

- Cat (interrupts Alicia): So it really doesn't matter which path you choose

The cat moves in front of Alice, blocking her, laughing, stops at another tree to
to speak to him/her

Ah, I forgot, but if you’re interested, he went that way (he puts a hand between the...
(ears and with the other points the direction the white rabbit took)

- Alicia: Who?

Cat: The White Rabbit.

Really?

Cat: Really what?

Alicia: That she left

- Cat: Who?

Alicia (disgusted): The rabbit!

Cat: Which rabbit? (smiling)

- Alicia: But you just told me that... Oh my God! (crosses arms)

Cat: Well, if I were looking for a white rabbit, I would ask the mad hatter (points
with a finger a sign indicating where the hat maker is

To the Mad Hatter? No, no, no, better not (shaking her hands and head)

- Cat: Oh!, there is the hare, this way (points to the opposite side of the sign)

Alicia: Thank you, I think I will go visit her.

Cat: You can go, although I warn you that she's also crazy.

Alicia: But I don't want to have any dealings with crazy people.

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Cat: Oh, you can't avoid that, here, almost everyone is crazy! Hahahahaha (he loses his)
air and takes it

(The cat disappears)

Alicia: My God, it's better to be nice to these people, apparently they're all crazy...

SEVENTH ACT

Alicia walks and comes across the Mad Hatter and company tea party, she approaches.
the mad hatter and the march hare are at the table, singing their song of no
birthday)

Mad Hatter and March Hare (singing): Happy, happy unbirthday! Happy,
I give you a happy unbirthday!

March Hare: Happy, happy un-birthday!

Mad Hatter: Me?

Hare: To you! Happy, happy unbirthday! Let's celebrate the day with 2 cups of good tea.

Happy, happy unbirthday to you!

Alicia watches them curiously, they finish singing and she applauds. They notice her.
presence, and that she is sitting in one of its chairs.

- Mad Hatter and Hare: There's no place, there's no place, don't sit down

Alicia: But there are many empty places.

Rabbit: (speaking very quickly) Ah, but she shouldn't have sat down without being invited.

- Mad Hatter: It's a lack of education! Very bad, very bad education! Ha!

Alicia: Excuse me, I really liked how you sang and I would like to know if you...

Hare (interrupts Alice): Do you think we sing well?

Hatter: Oh, what a charming little girl! (puts elbows on the table) I...
we invite you for a cup of tea!

- Hare: Ah, yes, yes, a cup of tea! (takes the teapot and a cup and serves tea to Alice)

I would love to, but I'm sorry for interrupting your birthday party.
Thank you!

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Hare: (snatches the cup from Alice) Birthday? My dear girl, this is not a
birthday

- Hatter: Of course not! This is the un-birthday party.

- Alicia: No birthday? I'm sorry, but I don't understand you.

Hare: Look, a non-birthday is... is... haha doesn't know what a non-birthday is.

Mad Hatter: What a fool! (laughs maniacally covering his mouth) Well, I'll teach you.
Imagine that you have a birthday every year.

Hare: But you have 364 days of unbirthday left, and those are precisely the ones we celebrate.
here

Alicia: So, it's also my un-birthday today

Hare: Really?

Hatter: What a small world this is! (Reflecting) The white queen and the queen
Roja is also having a non-birthday today.

Alicia: Who are they?

Hares: They are queens, one white...

Hatter: a red one, but there is a conflict between them, it's better not to get involved.

Hare: But let's continue with our un-birthday. Happy, happy un-birthday!

Me?

Mad Hatter: It's you!

Hare: Happy, happy unbirthday!

- Alicia: For me?

Hatter: For you!

Both: Happy, happy unbirthday to YOU!

Hatter: Now, dear, what were you saying? Who were you looking for? (he takes a cup of tea and
the baby

- Alicia: Oh yes!, I wanted to know the whereabouts of…

- Hare (interrupting Alice): Whose, whose? Come on, girl! Speak...

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Alicia: Well, I can't talk if I'm being interrupted.

Hare: Interrupting, who is interrupting you? Careful! It has symptoms of

madness! (places himself behind the hat maker)

- Mad Hatter: (looking at Alice) I think you are indeed crazy, but I will tell you a secret:
the best people are.

- Alicia: Madness? You all are the crazy ones! I'd better leave now because I don't want to lose the
time

Mad Hatter: Time, if you knew time as well as I do, you wouldn't talk about
to lose it. Time is quite a character!

(Alicia leaves, walks a bit, and confused says aloud):

Alicia: I'm tired of seeing nonsense! They won't make a fool of me! That white rabbit, what do I...
It doesn't matter to me where he has gone. Let's see, if I came this way, I have to go this way.
return.

EIGHTH ACT

(Alicia walks without finding a way out, and sits on a log wanting to sob. To her
the cat arrives from behind, who asks with a mocking tone

Cat: Who are you waiting for? The white rabbit, perhaps?

No, I don't want you to talk to me about him! I want to leave, but I don't know which way!

- Cat (playing with hands): Of course you don't know, because no one here knows anything. Only...
you can know what the Red Queen has in store (this last sentence with a macabre tone)

But I've never seen her, I've only heard people talk about her!
- Cat: What? It's not possible! Aaah, she's going to like you a lot when she sees you! You are going to...
to enchant! Hahaha

Alicia: Where is the queen?

Cat: Sometimes over here (pointing left) and sometimes over there
(pointing to the right) come follow me!

Ninth Act

(Alicia arrives alone to where the letters are and sees them going back and forth impatiently,
They form horizontally and one of them shouts: 'Take attendance!' And they start to count each other.
one from 1 to 10. Alicia looks at them. The rabbit passes between the aces)
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The rabbit!

- Rabbit: With you, your serene highness! Your majesty, the queen of hearts!

(The queen enters, holding her dress with one hand and holding her fan with the other. There are sounds of...
praises. The king enters and pokes the rabbit with his fan, indicating that he should present him.

- Rabbit (discouraged): And the king.

(A poor voice is heard in the background while the king greets saying long live)

Queen of Hearts: And what is this?

- Rey: Let me see my queen, (he holds Alicia's chin with his fan) she doesn't look like a two,
neither a three.

Red Queen: Ah, if it's a little girl! (With a kind gesture) Tell me dear, where do you come from, and
Where are you going?

Alicia: Well, I wanted to know...

- Red Queen (angry): Know? No one here knows more than me!

Alicia: I know, Your Majesty. But I wanted to know if...

- Red Queen: It's me who asks! Do you know how to play croquet?

Alicia: Yes, your royal majesty.

Reina: Let the game begin!

Everyone prepares for the croquet game, but the queen falls to the ground because of one.
of the aces and they blame Alicia.

Alicia: Ayno!

(The cards are arranged around the queen so that she rises, and when she does)
shouts angrily):

- Red Queen: The head of the guilty will roll! YOU! (pointing at Alice) YOU were the one!
Cut off his head!

Alicia: Your royal majesty! You are not even a queen! You are just an ugly old woman, vain, and very bad.
polite

Red Queen: Off with their heads!

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Tenth Act

Alicia runs out, trips, and meets the white queen.

Alicia: Who are you?

White queen: I am the white queen, tell me what has happened to you?

(The red queen arrives and interrupts them)

Red Queen: Off with their heads.

- White Queen: Stop! What are you doing to this poor girl?

Red Queen: (with disgust) Ahhh, you again!

White Queen: Answer me, what have you done to this young lady?

Red Queen: She is the reason I tripped while playing croquet.

White Queen: I'm fed up with the croquet (to Alice), come with me, you'll be...
much better.

(The red queen withdraws with her guards having been humiliated)

Alicia: I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to go back home, to my home.

White queen: Calm, follow me, trust in me.

(Alicia and the white queen seated)

Alicia: I want to leave!

White queen: Don't worry, I have the solution, just drink this, close your eyes and trust...

Alicia wakes up in her sister's lap.

Eleventh Act

Alicia's sister: Alicia, Alicia, stop sleeping already!

Alicia (wakes up): But, but Mr. Caterpillar and Mr. Rabbit! Oh no, I had a dream
very strange and odd
Alicia's sister: Is that you, Mr. Rabbit? What things must be going through that little head of yours, it's already useless.

Come on, it's time to have dinner.

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FIN

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