Alice in Wonderland
Script
Scene 1:
Alice sitting outside with sister and narrator comes out.
Narrator: Once upon a time Alice was listening to another boring story told by
her older sister while day dreaming about the magical and mysterious lands her
father once told her about. When all of a sudden curiosity struck her when she
caught a glimpse of a white rabbit wearing a waist coat and carrying a pocket
watch. She sprung up and started to chase him.
Alice chases rabbit around stage.
She followed him into the woods (curtains) and suddenly tripped into a large rabbit hole.
Alice falls through curtain. Narrator exits. Spotlight fades. Lights brighten.
Alice: Ouch, my head! Where am I? What is this? And where did that white
rabbit run to?
Alice walks over to door and bends down and looks through it.
Alice: There he is! But, how on earth am I to fit through this little door? Sighs
Stage crew adds in normal size table. Alice walks over and picks up bottle off the table.
Alice: Drink me? Oh my, this cannot be good. I suppose it could be poison, but I
don’t have any other options.
Alice Drinks the potion.
Que light effects to make Alice look smaller.
Stage crew takes away the table.
Alice runs to the door, and tries to open it.
Alice: Oh no! It’s locked! Looks up at imaginiary ‘large table’ The key! The key is on
the table!
Alice looks around and soon finds chocolate on the floor
Alice: Eat me? I guess we’ll try this again…
Que Light effects.
Back stage crew Put small table out.
Alice walks over and grabs the key and bottle
Alice: Now let’s try this one last time
Alice drinks bottle
Lights off,
Queue door opening sound
Alice: Curios so, Curios so.
cut scene
Scene 2:
Rabbit runs across stage to side stage.
Rabbit: Late! Late! I’m gonna be late! I’m gonna be late for an important date!
Alice runs after. Stop middle stage. Out of breath.
Alice: *Gasps* Now where did that silly rabbit run off to this time?!
Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum enter. *Remember choreography during this scene.*
Tweedle-Dee: Ello!
Tweedle-Dum: Ello!
Tweedle-Dee: Aye, the first thing in a visit is to say:
Tweedle-Dum: How do you do? And shake hands!
Tweedle-Dee: Shake hands!
Tweedle-Dum: Shake hands!
Tweedle-Dee: Shake hands!
Tweedle-Dee: Let’s introduce ourselves. I’m Tweedle-Dee, and he’s TweedleDum!
Tweedle-Dum: In other words, I’m Tweedle-Dum and he’s Tweedle-Dee!
Alice: Oh! We’ll I’m Alice! Pleased to meet you! Have you seen a white rabbit? I
thought I just saw him dash this way…
Tweedle-Dee: I do not think I saw a rabbit. No, I don’t think I did. Did I? Did
you? Did you Tweedle Dum?
Tweedle-Dum: No, I suppose not, Tweedle-Dee. Do you know what rabbits
remind me of? Poetry!
Tweedles: DO YOU LIKE POETRY?!
Alice: We’ll you see, I have-Tweedle-Dum: Get down on one knee. ROSES ARE RED, Violets are blueTweedle-Dee: Dances around Alice. Sugar is sweet and so are you!
Tweedle-Dum: But the roses are wilting and the violets are dead!
Tweedle-Dee: The sugar bowl is empty,
Tweedles: AND SO IS YOUR HEAD
Laughing eventually falling down and rolling on the floor cracking up.
Alice stands awkwardly
Alice: Alright, well, I shall leave you to it, then…
Alice Exits…
*Scene cut*
Scene 3:
Alice finds the White Rabbit’s house. He dashes out and across the stage.
Alice: Hey! You there! Slow down!
White Rabbit: Late! Late! I’m gonna be late, I’m gonna be late for an important
date!
Alice chases him into the curtains. Scene cut. Prop change. Flowers appear.
Alice walks on stage and passes the first two flowers when the third flower pulls on her
arm.
Flower 3: What a strange looking flower.
Flower 2 slighty lifts up Alice’s dress.
Flower 2: and look at those stems, so thin.
Alice: You can talk!?
Flower 3: Strangest looking flower I’ve ever seen. What are you called?
Alice: I’m Alice.
Flower 1: An Alice? I’ve never heard of such a flower.
Alice: That’s because I’m not a flower I’m a---Flower 2: I knew it! She must be a common mobile vulgaris!
Flower 3 and 1: Oh no!
Alice: A common what?
Flower 2: to put it bluntly, a weed!
Alice: I’m not a weed!
Flower 3: Well we can’t expect her to admit it.
Flowers in unison: Go now before you seed!
Alice: Oh, all right, if that’s the way you feel about it. If I were my right size, I
could pick every one of you if I wanted to! That would teach you!
All flowers ‘throw’ Alice off stage.
Scene cut
Scene 4:
Alice walks up to caterpillar.
Caterpillar: Humming quietly Looks down at Alice. Whooo are yooou?
Alice: 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 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: Recite.
Alice: Hmm? Oh! Oh, oh, yes, sir! Um... how doth the little busy bee, improve each
such...
Caterpillar: Stop! That is not spoken correctly. It goes: how...
Alice laughs
Caterpillar: Hmm! How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail. And pour the
waters of the Nile, on every golden scale. How cheer... how cheer... Ahem!
Alice laughs interrupting caterpiller
Caterpillar: How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws. And
welcomes little fishes in, with gently smiling jaws.
Alice: Well I must say I’ve never heard it that way before...
Caterpillar: I know, I have improved it.
Alice: Well if you ask me...
Caterpillar: You? Huh, who are you?
Alice walks away irritated
Caterpillar: You there! Girl! Wait! Come back! I have something important to say!
Alice: Oh dear. I wonder what he wants now. Walks back to caterpillar. Well...?
Caterpillar: Keep your temper!
Alice: Is that all?
Caterpillar: No. Exactly, what is your problem?
Alice: well, it’s precisely this: I should like to be a little larger, sir.
Caterpillar: Why?
Alice: Well, after all, three inches is such a wretched height, and...
Caterpillar: I am exactly three inches high, and it is a very good height indeed!
Alice: But I’m not used to it. And you needn’t shout!
Alice walks away into curtain annoyed.
Scene 5:
Alice keeps wondering along the path.
Cheshire Cat: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder what you’re at.
Alice: Now where in the world do you suppose that...
Cheshire Cat: Excuse me?
Alice: Oh. Um. Well, I-I-I was just wondering…
Cheshire Cat: Oh uhh, that’s quite all right! Oh, hmm, one moment please... Oh
yes! Second chorus... Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky…
Alice: What an un-usual song, but nothing here really does seem normal.
Cheshire Cat: What’s un-usual in your eyes might be completely normal in
anyone else’s eyes.
Cheshire cat ‘fades away’
Alice: Oh wait! Don’t go! Please!
Cheshire Cat: Very well. Third chorus...
Alice: Oh no no no... thank you, but 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 can...
Cheshire Cat: Then it really doesn’t matter which way you go!... 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: However, if I were looking for a white rabbit, I’d ask the Mad
Hatter.
Alice: The Mad Hatter?
Cheshire Cat: Or, there’s the March Hare. In that direction.
Alice: Oh, thank you. 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….. You may
have noticed that I’m not all there myself....
Cheshire Cat disappears
Cut scene
Scene 6:
Enters the March Hare, Mad Hatter, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, and Door Mouse.
Add in table and chairs.
Lights on and Alice enters
Alice: Hello, I am looking for the March Hare or Mad Hatter.
Tweedle-Dee: Is that the being?
Tweedle-Dum: no, no it is not the being.
Tweedle-Dee: No I believe its so.
Tweedle-Dum: no, no it ain’t so
Tweedle-Dee: you sure?
Tweedle-Dum: No it ain’t so, no how.
Mad Hatter: I am the Mad Hatter.
March Hare: And I am the March hair.
Both laugh hysterically
Alice: Oh goodie! Sits down
March Hare, Mad Hatter, Tweedles, and Door Mouse: No room, no room, no
room!
Alice: What do you mean theres no room? The seat was wide open.
March Hare: Ah, but it’s very rude to sit down without being invited.
Mad Hatter: I say, It’s rude! It’s very, very rude indeed!
Both laugh insanely.
Door Mouse: Very rude indeed! Laughs along
Alice: Oh I’m truly sorry. Stands up. Hello I’m Alice. May I please sit down?
Mad Hatter: Who?
Alice: Me!
Mad Hatter: You?
Alice: Yes!
Mad Hatter: Well of course you can! Why even ask? There’s plenty of room!
Alice: But you just said! You know what never mind. I came because the cat said
you could answer my question.
Cat appears and sits down.
Cheshire Cat: Did I hear my name?
Mad Hatter: Oh! Just in time I was just about to ask our new guest a question.
Alice: No I was about to ask a question. You see…
Door Mouse: Twinkle, twinkle little bat how I wonder what you’re at!
All (except Alice): Up above the world you fly like a tea tray in the sky! Twinkle,
Twinkle little bat how I wonder what you’re at!
Alice: That’s a wonderful song but I was wondering if you could please tell
me…
Mad Hatter: Oh yes, you had a question!
Alice: Yes, well you see. It would be so kind if you could tell me where…
March Rabbit laughs hystaricly then calms down and looks at his spoon: Spoon.
Mad Hatter: My dear, would you like 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 then nothing!
Alice: But what I meant was…
Mad Hatter: Didn’t you have something to ask me?
Alice: Yes! There is this white rabbit. I was wandering if you knew where he
went?
Mad Hatter: I have a question for you. Do you have any clue why a raven is like
a writing desk?
Alice: Oh I love riddles. Hmm why is a raven like a writing desk?
Mad Hatter: I beg your pardon?
Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Mad Hatter: Why is a what?
Door mouse: Careful, I think she’s mad!
Alice: But you just said… Never mind I don’t have time for this.
Cheshire Cat: Speaking of the time. Does anyone know it?
White Rabbit Enters
White Rabbit: Late, late! I’m going to be late! I’m going to be late be an important
date!
Alice: The white rabbit!
White Rabbit: Oh I’m so late I’m so very, very late.
Mad Hatter Grabs the White Rabbits clock.
Mad Hatter: Well, no wonder you’re late! Why, this clock is exactly two days
slow!
White Rabbit: Two days slow?
Mad Hatter: Of course you’re late. My goodness! We’ll have to look into this. Aha! I see what’s wrong with it! Why, this watch is full of wheels!
Mad Hatter starts to hit watch with hammer.
White Rabbit: Oh, my good watch! Oh, my wheels! My springs! But- but- butbut, but- but- but...
Mad Hatter: Butter! Of course, we need some butter! Butter!
March Hare: Butter!
White Rabbit: But- but- butter?
March Hare starts spreading butter on watch.
White Rabbit: Oh no, no, no, no you’ll get crumbs in it!
Mad Hatter: Oh, this is the very best butter! What are you talking about?
March Hare: Tea?
Mad Hatter: Tea! Oh, I never thought of tea! Of course!
White Rabbit: No!
Mad Hatter pours tea into watch.
Cheshire Cat: Oh don’t do that your wasting all the tea.
March Hare: Sugar?
Mad Hatter: Sugar. Yes! Two spoons! Thank you!
Mad Hatter puts in two spoons of sugar.
White Rabbit: Oh, please! Be careful!
March Hare: Jam?
Mad Hatter: Jam! I forgot all about jam!
Mad Hatter spreads jam.
White Rabbit: No, no! Not jam!
March Hare: Mustard?
Mad Hatter: Mustard? Yes, but... Mustard? Let’s not be silly! Lemon, that’s
different, that’s... yes! Squirts lemon in. That should do it! Shakes clock acting like its
going crazy. Look at that!
March Hare: Its gone mad!
Cat shakes head in shame Cat: It’s not the only one.
Alice: Oh my!
White Rabbit: Oh dear!
March Hare: It is going mad! Mad watch!
Mad Hatter: I don't understand, it's the best butter.
March Hare: Mad watch! Mad watch! Mad watch!
Mad Hatter: Oh, look! Oh my goodness!
March hare: There’s only one way to stop a mad watch!
Mad Hatter throws watch on the table and March Hare smashes it more with the
hammer and hands the watch to the rabbit.
White Rabbit: My watch!
Mad Hatter and March Hare pick up White Rabbit
Both: Take your mad watch and leave!
Throws Rabbit out
Alice: Oh no! Now how am I to find him!
Tweedles: He went that aways! Both pointing at a different direction.
Alice: You all are mad! Oh mister rabbit! Runs off stage.
All shrugs and takes a sip of their tea. Lights off.
Scene cut.
Scene 7:
Change scenery Alice come in and sits on rock. Lights on. Queue spot light.
Alice is crying. Cheshire Cat appears. Sits next to Alice.
Alice: Huh? Oh its you.
Cheshire Cat: Whom did you expect? The white rabbit, perchance?
Alice: Oh, no. I’m through with rabbits. I want to go home! But I can’t find my
way.
Cheshire Cat: Naturally. That’s because you have no way. All ways here you see,
are the queen’s ways.
Alice: But I’ve never met any queen.
Cheshire Cat: You haven’t? Oh, but you must! Stands up and walks towards
curtains. She’ll be mad about you, simply mad! ‘Disappears’
Alice: Please, please! How can I find her?
Cat sticks out head.
Cheshire Cat: Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself,
personally, I prefer the shortcut.
Puts head back in but sticks out arm pointing out the curtains.
Red carpet is released.
Alice: Oh! Alice fallows it into curtains.
Lights turn off.
Cut scene
Scene 8:
Add in tree, painting cards, and props.
Lights on. Cards are painting Alice walks in.
Card one: Paint faster! They all have to be red or we could say goodbye to our
heads!
Alice: Pardon me but why do you have to paint the roses red?
Card two: Well… We accidently planted white roses instead of red, and if the
queen saw what we did well….
Card one and two: Off with our heads!
Alice: Goodness!
Cards: Sense that is what we dread, we are painting the roses red.
Alice: Oh dear then let me help you!
Card one hands Alice a brush. Alice helps.
Out roles the red carpet two more cards come out like guards and bow. Then the White
Rabbit comes out and bows.
Alice: The Rabbit!
Cards: The queen!
Alice: The queen?
Cards: The queen!
White Rabbit: Her imperial highness, he... her grace, her Excellency, her royal
majesty, the Queen of Hearts!
Card Painters bow and drop their brushes. Alice looks around and then follows.
Queen walks in and picks up a brush.
Queen: Who has been painting my roses red?
Queen looks down at the cards and looks at their hands.
Queen: Red paint?
Painting cards: No please your majesty let us explain!
Queen: Off with their heads!
Guard cards drag the playing cards off stage.
Alice stands up and tugs on the queen’s arm.
Alice: Oh please don’t! All they were trying to do was…
Queen: Silence! Who is this!
Guard cards run out
Queen: Why, it’s a little girl.
Alice: Yes, and- and I was hoping...
Queen: Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers! Turn out your
toes. Curtsey. Open your mouth a little wider, and always say ‘yes, your
majesty’!
Alice: Yes, your majesty!
Queen: Now where do you come from, and where are you going?
Alice: Well, I’m trying to find my way home...
Queen: Your way? All ways here are my ways!
Alice: Well, yes, I know, but I was just thinking...
Queen: Curtsey while you’re thinking, it saves time.
Alice: Yes, your majesty, but I was only going to ask...
Queen: I’ll ask the questions! Do you play croquet?
Alice: Why, yes, your majesty.
Queen: Then let the game begin!
White Rabbit gets the Queen a mallet and Guards arch their backs. When the Queen
swings the second guard falls over.
Queen: Off with his head!
The first guard drags the second off the stage and comes back with the third. And go back
to their place.
Queen: You’re next.
Alice: But…
Queen: You’re next! Hands Alice rubber Mallet. Alice struggles at first. Cheshire
appears
Cheshire Cat: I say, how are you getting on?
Alice: Not at all.
Cheshire Cat: I beg your pardon?
Alice: I said, not at all!
Queen: Who are you talking to?
Alice: The cat!
Queen: Cat? Where?
Cheshire puts head back in.
Alice: There!
Queen: I don’t see a cat, now swing!
Cat pops his head in again.
Alice: Oh there he is again!
Queen: I warn you child, if I lose my temper, you lose your head, understand?
Alice: But he’s right there!
Queen growls
Alice: Alright... swings and the first card fall down on purpose making her lose.
Everyone but Alice laughs.
Alice: That wasn’t fair. You cheated!
Queen: Off with her head!
White Rabbit: If I may your majesty. Could she at least have a trial first?
Queen: A trial?
White Rabbit: Yes ma’am, a short trial.
Queen: Fine then. Let the trial begin!
Scene cut
Lights
Change scenery
Scene 9:
Queen sits on thrown, all cards sit in jury chairs, White rabbit stand next to queens
thrown. Alice stand on the side where audience can see her but also facing the queen.
Lights on.
White Rabbit: Your majesty... members of the jury... loyal subjects... The prisoner
at the bar is charged with enticing her majesty, the Queen of Hearts, into a game
of croquet, and thereby willfully...
Alice: But...
White Rabbit: ...and with malice aforethought, teasing, tormenting, and
otherwise annoying...
Queen: Don’t mind all that! Get to the part where I lose my temper.
White Rabbit: thereby causing the queen to lose her temper.
Queen: Now, are you ready for your sentence?
Alice: Sentence? But there must be a verdict first!
Queen: Sentence first! Verdict afterwards!
Alice: But that just isn’t the way!
Queen: All ways are...
Alice: Your ways, your majesty.
Queen: Yes, my child. Off with her...
White Rabbit: Consider my majesty. We called no witnesses... couldn’t we...
maybe one or two?
Queen: Oh, very well. But get on with it!
White Rabbit: First witness! We’ll call the first witness, The March Hare. March
Hare comes in and stands next to/ in front of the queen, what do you know about this
unfortunate affair?
March Hare: Nothing.
Queen: Nothing whatever?
March Hare: Nothing whatever!
Queen: That’s very important! Jury, write that down!
Alice: Unimportant, your majesty means of course...
Queen: Silence! Next witness!
White Rabbit: The Door mouse.
March hare goes and sits on the end on the stage. The Door mouse walks in.
Queen: Well, what do you have to say about all this?
Door Mouse: Twinkle, Twinkle little bat. How I wonder… falls asleep and lies
down.
Queen: That’s the best evidence we have had all day! Jury, write that down!
Alice: What?
White Rabbit: The Mad Hatter.
Mad Hatter comes in
Queen: Off with your hat!
Mad Hatter: Oh my! Laughs and takes off hat.
White Rabbit: Where were you when this horrible crime was committed?
Mad Hatter: I was home, drinking tea.
Queen: I see. Well if there are no more witnesses I guess we are done here!
Cheshire pops his head out over the Queens.
Cheshire cat: It seems they have forgotten me.
Alice: Oh your majesty! He’s there now!
Queen: He? Where? Who?
Alice: The Cheshire cat!
Queen: Cat!
Cat disappears and the door mouse wakes up
Door mouse: Cat, cat, cat!
Mouse starts running around everywhere.
Mad hatter: Oh no! Catch him!
March Hare: It’s all the girls fault!
Queen: Off with her head!
Alice jumps up and runs away. Everyone starts chasing Alice into the crowd. Chasing
her into the curtains.
Lights off.
Scene cut.
Change Scenery
Scene 10:
Alice is asleep in her sister’s lap and wakes up and looks around.
Alice: Oh! It was just a dream. It was so terrifying! There was a talking cat and a
rabbit with a watch and snobby flowers and a hatter and… Have I gone mad?
Sister: Yes, you’re mad, completely bonkers, off your head! But I’ll tell you a
secret… All the best people are.
Last scene cut
Lights off
Scenery Change
Bowing Scene
The End.