CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Junior Conservatoire of Drama, Dance, Production and Film. January 2023.
Curiouser and Curiouser was a large-scale multi-artform piece, which blended original material devised by the company with scenes, songs and dances from a wide range of adaptations and interpretations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice novels. Set firmly in contemporary Scotland, our story followed Alice’s attempts to come to terms with her grief for her best friend, Rab. The show involved over a hundred teenage performers from across the RCS Junior Conservatoire’s acting, musical theatre, ballet and contemporary dance programmes, supported by film and production students.
‘I was blown away by the scale, invention and talent. Truly impressive’
– Gemma Botinetz, former Artistic Director, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Direction/concept: Tom Cooper
Choreography: Angela Boshoff, Kirsten Longmuir (musical theatre); Bridie Gane (contemporary dance); Sotirios Panagoulias, Suzanne Shanks (ballet)
Set and costume design: Rachael Orr
Musical direction: Shonagh Murray
Lighting and sound: KF Sound and Lighting
Photographs by Paul Watt Photography