Alice in Wonderland (script of a school play)

Scene 1

(music № 1. Introduction)

Alice’s sister: There were a lot of rich and famous people at the party and the most important lords had arrived there. The scenery was fantastic and all the guests were wearing expensive clothes. Alice, why aren’t you listening?

Alice: The book is boring. I dislike books without pictures.

Alice’s sister: There are a lot of good books in the world without pictures.

Alice: In this world…but in my world all the books are with pictures.

Alice’s sister: Your world? What nonsense!

Alice: In my world everything is special!

Alice’s sister: Really?

(video .Song “In a world of my own”)

Alice: Oh Dinah! Its just a rabbit with a waistcoat… and a watch!

White Rabbit: Oh my fur and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late I’m late!

Alice: Now this is curious! What could a rabbit possibly be late for? Please, sir!

White Rabbit: I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

Alice: It must be awfully important, like a party or something! Mister Rabbit! Wait!

White Rabbit: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I’m overdue. I’m really in a stew. No time to say goodbye, hello! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

Alice: My, what a peculiar place to have a party.

(video Alice is falling)

Scene 2

Doorknob: Ohhhhh!!

Alice: OH! Oh, I beg your pardon.

Doorknob: Oh, oh, it’s quite all right. But you did give me quite a turn!

Alice: You see, I was following…

Doorknob: Rather good, what? Doorknob, turn?

Alice: Please, sir.

Doorknob: Well, one good turn deserves another! What can I do for you?

Alice: Well, I’m looking for a white rabbit. So, um, if you don’t mind…

Doorknob: Uh? Oh!

Alice: There he is! I simply must get through!

Doorknob: Sorry, you’re much too big. Simply impassible.

Alice: You mean impossible?

Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing’s impossible! Why don’t you try the bottle on the table?

Alice: Table? Oh!

Doorknob: Read the directions, and directly you’ll be directed in the right direction. He he he!

Alice: ‘Drink me’. Hmmm, better look first. I was just giving myself some good advice. But… hmm, tastes like oh… cherry tart… custard… pineapple… roast turkey… goodness! What did I do?

(video Alice in the forest 1)

Scene 3

The caterpillar appears with a ribbon. It starts dancing. At the end of her dance the mushroom standing on one knee gives her a flower as a present.

Music № 2. Dance of a caterpillar

Mushroom: You are good at dancing.

Caterpillar: Thank you ever so much!

Alice starts applauding.

Caterpillar: Who are you?

Alice: I- I- I hardly know, sir! I changed so many times since this morning, you see…

Caterpillar: I do not see. Explain yourself.

Alice: Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know…

Caterpillar: I do not know.

Alice: Well, I can’t put it anymore clearly for it isn’t clear to me!

Caterpillar: You? Who are you?

Alice: Well, don’t you think you ought to tell me- cough-cough, cough-cough, who you are first?

Caterpillar: Why?

Alice: Oh dear. Everything is so confusing.

Caterpillar: It is not.

Alice: Well, it is to me.

Caterpillar: Why?

Alice: Well, I can’t remember things as I used to, and…

Caterpillar: Oh, girl, come back, please!

Mushroom: Never get angry!

Caterpillar: I can help you!

Alice: How can you?

Caterpillar: Remember! One side will make you taller and the other side will make you shorter!

Alice: One side of what?

Mushroom: Of what? Of the mushroom.

Alice: But the mushroom is round… I’ll take two opposite pieces. Thank you!

The mushroom and the caterpillar are going away. Alice is walking across the forest thoughtfully.

(Video In the forest 2)

Scene 4

Alice: Oh! You are a cat!

Cat: I am not an ordinary cat. I am the Cheshire Cat.

The cat begins to vanish singing Alice’s song.

Alice: I just wanted to ask you which way I ought to go.

Cheshire Cat: Well, that depends on where you want to get to.

Alice: Oh, it really doesn’t matter, as long as I g…

Cheshire Cat: Then it really doesn’t matter which way you go! Ah-hmm… and the momeraths outgrabe… Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to know, he went that way.

Alice: Who did?

Cheshire Cat: The white rabbit.

Alice: He did?

Cheshire Cat: He did what?

Alice: Went that way?

Cheshire Cat: Who did?

Alice: The white rabbit!

Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?

Alice: But didn’t you just say… I mean… oh dear!

Cheshire Cat: Can you stand on your head?

Alice: Oh!

Cheshire Cat: However, if I were looking for a white rabbit, I’d ask the Mad Hatter.

Alice: The Mad Hatter? Uh… no, no, I don’t- I don’t…

Cheshire Cat: Or, there’s the March Hare. In that direction.

Alice: Oh, thank you. I- I think I shall visit him.

Cheshire Cat: Of course, he’s mad too.

Alice: But I don’t want to go among mad people!

Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can’t help that. Almost everyone is mad here. Ha… ha ha ha ha ha! You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself…. hahaha… and the momeraths outgrabe…

Alice: Goodness. If the people here are like that, I- I must try not to upset them. How very curious!

Scene 5

Alice keeps on walking and finds herself at the mad tea-party. The March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse sing Музыкальный отрывок “The Unbirthday Song”. Alice applauds and tries to take her seat at the table.

March Hare: …to us. If there are no objections, let it be unanimous!

Mad Hatter: A very merry unbirthday…

March Hare: A very merry unbirthday…

Mad Hatter & March Hare: A very merry unbirthday to us! …

March Hare: A very merry unbirthday to me.

Mad Hatter: To who?

March Hare: To me.

Mad Hatter: Oh you!

March Hare: A very merry unbirthday to you.

Mad Hatter: Who, me?

March Hare: Yes, you.

Mad Hatter: Oh me!

March Hare: Let’s all congratulate us with another cup of tea, a very merry unbirthday to you!

March Hare & Mad Hatter: No room, no room, no room, no room, no room, no room, no room!

Alice: But I thought there was plenty of room!

March Hare: Ah, but it’s very rude to sit down without being invited!

Mad Hatter: I say it’s rude. Its very very rude, indeed! Hah!

Dormouse: Very very very rude, indeed…

Alice: Oh, I’m very sorry, but I did enjoy your singing and I wondered if you could tell me…

March Hare: You enjoyed our singing?

Mad Hatter: Oh, what a delightful child! Hah! I’m so excited, we never get compliments! You must have a cup of tea!

March Hare: Ah, yes indeed! The tea, you must have a cup of tea!

Alice: That would be very nice. I’m sorry I interrupted your birthdayparty… uh, thank you.

March Hare: Birthday? Hahaha! My dear child, this is not a birthdayparty!

Mad Hatter: Of course not! Hehehe! This is an unbirthdayparty!

Alice: Unbirthday? Why, I’m sorry, but I don’t quite understand.

March Hare: Its very simple. Now, thirty days have sept- no, when… an unbirthday, if you have a birthday then you… haha… she doesn’t know what an unbirthday is!

Mad Hatter: How silly! Ha ha ha ha! Ah-hum… I shall elucidate! Now statistics prove, prove that you’ve one birthday.

March Hare: Imagine, just one birthday every year.

Mad Hatter: Ahhh, but there are 364 unbirthdays!

March Hare: Precisely why we’re gathered here to cheer!

Alice: Why, then today is my unbirthday too!

March Hare: It is?

Mad Hatter: What a small world this is.

March Hare: In that case… a very merry unbirthday.

Alice: To me?

Mad Hatter: To you!

March Hare: A very merry unbirthday.

Alice: For me?

Mad Hatter: For you! Now blow the candle out, my dear and make your wish come true! Hihihi!

March Hare & Mad hatter: A very merry unbirthday to you!

Dormouse: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat, how I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky!

Alice: Oh, that was lovely!

Mad Hatter: And uh, and now my dear, hehe, uh… you were saying that you would like to sea.. uh…? You were seaking some information some kind… hehe!

Alice: Oh, yes. You see, I’m looking for a…

Mad Hatter: Clean cup, clean cup! Move down!

Alice: But I haven’t used my cup!

March Hare: Clean cup, clean cup, move down, move down, clean cup, clean cup, move down!

Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?

Alice: Well, I haven’t had any yet, so I can’t very well take more…

March Hare: Ahh, you mean you can’t very well take less!

Mad Hatter: Yes! You can always take more than nothing!

Alice: But I only meant that…

Mad Hatter: And now, my dear, something seems to be troubling you. Uh, won’t you tell us all about it?

March Hare: Start at the beginning.

Mad Hatter: Yes, yes! And when you come to the end, hehehe, stop! See?

Alice: Well, it all started while I was sitting on the riverbank with Dinah.

March Hare: Very interesting. Who’s Dinah?

Alice: Why, Dinah is my cat. You see…

Dormouse: Cat?

March Hare: Hurry! Give the jam! Quickly! Give the jam! On his nose! Put it on his nose!

Mad Hatter: On his nose, on his nose!

Dormouse: Where’s the cat…

Mad Hatter: Oh. Oh, my goodness! Those are the things that upset me!

March Hare: See all the trouble you’ve started?

Alice: But really, I didn’t think…

March Hare: Ah, but that’s the point! If you don’t think, you shouldn’t talk!

The White Rabbit appears. It is running along the stage.

Rabbit: Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be late!

Alice: Mr.Rabbit! Mr.Rabbit! (She is running after the rabbit.) I have lost my way.

Video Alice in the forest of magic (meanwhile the stage is being cleaned) (Alice runs after the rabbit and sees the Cheshire cat again)

Scene 6

Alice: Oh, Mr.Cheshire Cat! I want to go home but I can’t find my way.

Cat: Naturally! All the ways here belong to the Red Queen!

Alice: To the Queen? I haven’t seen any Queen here…

Cat: Then you must see her by all means!

Video Alice gets to the castle and a song “we are painting roses red”

Scene 7

Alice: Excuse me, please! Why are you painting the roses red?

Card 2: Because it is our Queen’s favourite colour.

(Музыкальный отрывок Фанфары.)

Cards, the Queen and the King appear. The White Rabbit appears breathing heavily.

Rabbit: Her Majesty, the Queen of Hearts!

KING: AND THE KING!

The queen sees roses which have not been painted yet and gets furious.

Queen: Who has been painting my roses red and hasn’t finished yet? Who? Who? Off with their heads!

Card 3: It was he!

The Ace of Hearts: No, it was he!

Card 2 and Card 2 (3): No, it was he!

Queen: Off with their heads!

Alice: Oh, please, don’t do it! They have done their best.

Queen: And who is it?

KING: NOW I`’L HAVE A LOOK. THIS IS ONLY A LITTLE GIRL.

Queen: Right you are. She is really a girl.

Queen to Alice: You must always bow to me and answer my questions saying: “Yes, Your Majesty!” Do you understand me?

Alice bowing: Yes, Your Majesty!

Queen: Very well!

The Queen turns away from Alice and the Cheshire cat appears.

Cat: Well, how are you getting on?

Alice: It’s very difficult to say. I’m not getting on at all.

Queen: Who are you talking to?

Alice: It’s a friend of mine — a Cheshire Cat.

Queen: A Cat? What kind of cat? Where is it?

Alice: Here it is.

The queen looks around and the cat vanishes.

Queen: REMEMBER! If I lose my patience you will lose your head.

Cat: I think we will be able to make her really furious! Let’s try!

Alice: No, no! Don’t do it!

Cat: It’ll be hilarious!

The cat pushes the queen and she falls down.

Alice: It’s terrible!

KING: WHO DARES TO DO HARM TO THE QUEEN?

Queen to Alice: You will answer for it. You are to blame! Off with her head!

KING: YOUR MAJESTY! MAYBE, WE’LL HAVE SOME KIND OF TRIAL FOR HER?

Queen: Very good! Let the trial begin!

(Музыкальный фрагмент Барабанная дробь)

Rabbit: Silence! The trial will now begin! The arrested is accused of making her Majesty lose her patience.

Queen: Off with her head!

Alice: Oh! My mushroom! I am not afraid of you! You are only a pack of cards!

KING: RULE № 42 SAYS: ALL PEOPLE A MILE HIGH MUST LEAVE THE ROOM.

Alice: I don’t obey your rules, Your Majesty! You are so fat, old and furious!

Queen: Off with her head!

Alice runs away.

Queen: Chase her! Don’t let her run away!

Music passage

Scene 8

Alice’s sister: Wake up, Alice, dear! You’ve been asleep for a long time.

Alice: Oh? I’ve had a very curious dream! The White Rabbit, the caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts…

Alice’s sister: The caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts? Let’s go home, Alice! It’s time to have our tea.

(Музыкальный отрывок “ALICE IN WONDERLAND”)

The end