The Adventures of Alice

The Adventures of Alice is a 1960 TV play starring Sonia Dresdel as the evil Red Queen. It was made by BBC Television and screened on 23 December 1960.

Plot

The play is based on the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Cast

Sonia Dresdel as Red Queen
Marian Spencer as White Queen
Ernest Milton as The Mad Hatter
Peter Sallis as Tweedledee
Gillian Ferguson as Alice
Gordon Davies as Lewis Carroll
Cyril Shaps as the March Hare
Carla Challoner as The Dormouse
Arthur Ridley as The Gryphon, The Unicorn
Eric Shilling as The Mock Turtle
Erik Chitty as The Caterpillar, The Lion
Barrie Cookson as Tweedledum
Frederick Treves as Red King
Vivienne Chatterton as The Sheep
David March as Humpty Dumpty
Philip Ray as White King
Geoffrey Bayldon as White Knight
John Murray Scott as The Creature with a Long Beak
Production

Following the success of Antony Hopkins' opera "Hands Across the Sky", the BBC commissioned him and Charles Lefeaux to write the opera The Adventures of Alice based on the stories by Lewis Carroll.

Reception

Mary Crosier wrote in The Guardian about "the dreamlike fantasy" but called the production "curiously uneven". The film received praise from critics and audiences when it was released on 23 December 1960, and so it was shown again on television on 7 August 1961. It now lies in the BBC Archives.

The Adventures of Alice

Plot

Cast

Production

Reception