Created and Directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy
Live Music by Branden Russo
Designed by Keith Parham
Stage Managed by Kiana Holmes

Featuring Ari Bird, Amy Gorelow, Miranda McCauley, Matt Miles, and Rebekah O’Connor

Friday, August 21 at 7:00pm
Saturday, August 22 at 7:00pm
Sunday, August 23 at 4:00pm

At Breckenridge Theater, all seating general admission on the stage

In the first sentence of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the titular character wonders, ‘“And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?” 
 
This original premiere performance created and directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy seeks to ask that question in real time, out loud, together. Inspired by the verbatim theatre practices of the seminal theatre company Elevator Repair Service, this is a full-text, unedited read of the novel that many of us have met primarily in adapted forms. Here, we’ll gather to meet the words and let them work their magic, the hallucinatory drug of storytelling. With tea and snacks and a flexible, interactive environment, this ensemble-based show will begin to bloom with live theatricality as we go deeper down the rabbit hole. 

ABOUT CREATOR/DIRECTOR AILEEN WEN MCGRODDY

Aileen Wen McGroddy is a Chinese- and Irish-American theatre director based in New York. Her work is rigorous, playful, and alive. She is a co-artistic director of TUTA Theatre Chicago and on faculty at Brown University. Upcoming work includes the world premiere of Talene Monahon’s Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret at Northern Stage. Recent work includes: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt… (Woolly Mammoth), Cold War Choir Practice and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); Tom and Eliza and Attempts on Her Life (TUTA Theatre Chicago); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Sisters and Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse). She has developed work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Playwright’s Realm, NY Classical Theatre, The Yale Drama Prize, Ars Nova, and Northern Stage. Fellowships: Roundabout Directors Group, 2050 at NYTW, Beatrice Terry Fellow at the Drama League, and BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. MFA in Directing from Brown-Trinity.