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Article: Darker 'Alice' is Halloween treat
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2009
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When little blond Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she introduced
us to a whole new world filled with grinning cats, a Mad Hatter and
a perpetually late rabbit.
Now, that already-upside-down world has been spun on its ear
under the hands of local playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett, who has
turned the classic fairy tale into a dark re-imagining for Plan-B
Theatre Company's fifth and final radio hour, "Radio Hour: Alice."
"I kept the basic structure but tried to nudge it further into a
nightmare," Bennett said in a phone interview.
"Take, for example the Cheshire Cat," Bennett said.
Noting that radio is dependent on description, Bennett has done
away with the playfully grinning cat from the ...