It is unlikely that the Mad Hatter will serve you any tea during this fabulous and FREE outdoor event, but the following three weekends all offer opportunities to see performances of WONDERLAND: Alice Adventures in local area parks.
The performances are being presented by Theater Simple, and are part of 4Culture's fabulous Site Specific program.
July 16th & 17th @ 5pm: Hiram Chittenden Locks, Ballard, Seattle, WA
July 23rd & 24th @ 4pm: Lake Meridian Park, Kent, WA
July 30th & 31st @ 4pm: Bellevue Botanical Gardens, Bellevue, WA
August 6th @ 11:30 & 2:30: Les Gove Park, Auburn, WA
From the description on Theater Simple's website:
A free theatrical park escapade, WONDERLAND is inspired by and adapted from Charles Dodgson’s (Lewis Carroll) Alice stories, as well as Dodgson's wordplay, math games and puzzles. An all-ages adventures, theater and visual arts weave whimsically together within a parkland, playing with the creative perspectives of imaginations.
THE GOAL: To look at ideas of PERSPECTIVE, CREATIVITY and PLAY - and have some serious fun.
Who can play? EVERYONE.
- FOLLOW White Rabbits!
- SEE the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle on the Locks! Dance the Lobster Quadrille!
- HEAR the Tweedle twins recite the Walrus and The Carpenter
- PLAY GIANT tic tac toe with the White Queen or croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts!
- EXPLORE a tiny house and a giant flower garden!
- FIND all the riddles and puns stashed around the park!
- DRAW what you see, and see what you draw!
- And of course, listen to the timeless words of the story, and puzzle your way through the event on
- our own.
From 4Culture's website:
THE PROJECT:
An interactive layer-cake of a site-specific all-ages theatrical park adventure, WONDERLAND is part performancepiece and art installation in a park or garden, part scavenger hunt, part DIY craft-y action, and all-fun, complete with tea party and cookies.WONDERLAND has been created by weaving together large-scale games, small scale events, and interactive installation art with spectacularly costumed characters and puppets alongside songs, dances and scenes. The audience, like Alice in the stories, discovers and interacts with WONDERLAND for themselves…
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