| The Adventures of Alice | |
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| Genre | Drama, Family |
| Created by | Lewis Carroll |
| Based on | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Written by | Lewis Carroll, Charles Lefeaux |
| Directed by | Charles Lefeaux |
| Starring |
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| Composer | Antony Hopkins |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Producer | Charles Lefeaux |
| Editor | John Nash |
| Running time | 55 Minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Television |
| Release | 23 December 1960 |
The Adventures of Alice is a 1960 TV play starring Sonia Dresdel as the evil Red Queen. It was made by BBC Television and screened on 23 December 1960.
The play is based on the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. [1] [2]
Following the success of Antony Hopkins' opera "Hands Across the Sky", the BBC commissioned him and Charles Lefeaux to write the opera The Adventures of Alice based on the stories by Lewis Carroll. [3]
The play received mostly positive reviews from critics. Mary Crosier wrote in The Guardian about "the dreamlike fantasy" but called the production "curiously uneven". [4] The Birmingham Post praised it for the performances of Gillian Ferguson, Sonia Dresdel, Marian Spencer and Geoffrey Bayldon. They also said that the puppets were used with great effect. [5] The play was later repeated on television on 7 August 1961. Unlike many other BBC productions, the play was able to survive destruction, and is now currently held at the BBC Archives. [6]