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Alice Threw the Looking Glass
a parody of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style
by John Walch
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GENRE Comedy
LENGTH Full-length, 65-85 minutes
CAST 1 female, 1 male, 6 either (8-40 actors possible: 1-39 females, 1-39 males)
SET Flexible playing space.
NOTES Some mild adult language and content
First-year college student Alice is in serious danger of failing her English course when she follows her composition paper into the trash -- and ends up in a hallucinatory world where the rules of grammar are turned upside-down. If she wants to pass, she'll need to deal with gunslinging run-on sentences, thugs hawking colloquialisms, fearsome Modifier Leeches, and more. Inspired by Lewis Carroll and parodying the terse manual The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, this ingenious comedy explores the fantasy world of language in all its grotesque mutations.

"An inspired take on Alice in Wonderland. The world of words has never been so interesting -- or indeed amusing -- as our young heroine is led through a mysterious land filled with nouns, adjectives and passive tenses. Surprisingly addictive viewing."
--Anna Millar, The Scotsman (Edinburgh)

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