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Theater: Wondering about Alice

David Sebba’s take on Alice in Wonderland allows for some tinkering to accommodate a local audience.

Wondering about Alice
Photo by: Courtesy: Eyal Landsman
At first glance, exposing young children to the negative influences inherent in Lewis Carroll’s ever-popular Alice in Wonderland might not seem to be the cleverest thing to do. Then again, it really does depend on how you take things.

According to David Sebba, the story is multi-layered, to say the least. And he is so enamored with the tale of the young girl who dropped through a hole in the ground and ended up discovering a fantasy world with all sorts of phantasmagorical creatures that he decided to create an opera based on it, in a language which almost every kid in Israel can understand – Hebrew.

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