The real Alice finally gets her tea party, and it's deeply uncomfortable.
In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
Production
Tenniel illustrations brought to unsettling life.
Acting
Baker's Dodgson: twitchy, brilliant, impossible to read.
Writing
Potter's script dares you to find the line between muse and fixation.
Director
Gareth Davies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dennis Potter originally wrote this for BBC's 'Wednesday Play' slot, notorious for controversial material. The Tenniel-accurate costumes took six weeks to construct.
The real Alice Liddell sold her original manuscript 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' at age 75 to pay for her husband's medical debts — the same manuscript Dodgson had gifted her as a child.
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