Our ninth annual show for Theatre in the Woods was our first adapation of a literary classic and our first adaptation by a company member.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was adapted by Brian Markley and directed Amy Clare Tasker.

We were thrilled to bring our unique, long-standing brand of whimsy and immersion to the beloved fantasy of Alice in Wonderland, bringing you literally into the story as you've likely never experienced.

Our five-acre complex of trails, bridges, stages, and amphitheater among the redwoods of King’s Mountain made use of a new tailor-made mobile adaptation. The audience followed Alice in her own footsteps as she journeyed through Wonderland and the Looking-Glass world after a lazy picnic turned magical, introducing her to the wildly eccentric forest citizens and pitting her as a pawn in a hastily planned game of chess among queens.




Lewis Carroll’s original word-play and humor was dressed in full creature effects and magical set design by the same creative team who collaborated on the our successful shows A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Frogs of recent years.

Alice in Wonderland featured Molly Benson, Stuart Bousel, Victor Carrion, Lindsay Cookson, Maria Giere, Geoffrey Libby, Rik Lopes, Brian Markley, Brian Martin, Karen Offereins, Jessica Rudholm, Michael Sally, and Kari Wolman.

As always, we were pleased to bring you a unique theatrical experience as part of a leisurely and invigorating hike through Woodside's beautiful redwood forest.

From the Director, Amy Clare Tasker

Alice in Wonderland is not just a children’s classic or a favorite family film; it’s a celebration of nonsense for anyone who has ever wanted to poke fun at the “grown up” world of learning, politics, and good manners. As much as Alice Liddell and her sisters (the original Alice, in 1862) must have enjoyed Lewis Carroll’s stories for their whimsy and colorful characters, the real genius of Alice in Wonderland, the reason we are still reading and watching and enjoying his work in 2010, is its astute, good-humored satire.

One of the many challenges in any retelling of the Alice in Wonderland books, from the Disney cartoon to Johnny Depp, is how to bring to life these beloved, fantastical characters, on stage or screen. It’s all very well for Carroll to pen a garden of talking flowers and a disappearing cat; and a hundred CG artists can create breathtaking vistas and incredible chess armies. But Alice in the theatre – in the original 3D – is a master class in imagination and ingenuity. Following Alice down the rabbit hole and through the woods is as immediate and personal as the Liddell sisters drinking up Carroll’s improvised tales, as they drifted in a rowboat on a “golden afternoon.”