Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland is faithful to the book. He coaxed an all star cast to take part. Hence why they are not masked in animal costumes.
There is an otherworldly quality to the production. That might be to do with the sparse dream like visuals and the music from Ravi Shankar.
Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) and her sister take an excursion to the countryside where she dozes off. Alice follows a White Rabbit (Wilfrid Brambell) to a hospital and encounters a door where she is too big to enter. Until she drinks a portion that makes a shrink.
It might be that I have never been to enamoured by the Alice in Wonderland story. This did not change my mind. It might be the bored looking expressionless Anne-Marie Mallik. I'm not sure if she was a bad actress or directed that way.
The gulf between her and other thespians ransing from Peter Sellers to John Gielgud to Michael Redgrave was vast. It certainly is a curiosity.
There is an otherworldly quality to the production. That might be to do with the sparse dream like visuals and the music from Ravi Shankar.
Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) and her sister take an excursion to the countryside where she dozes off. Alice follows a White Rabbit (Wilfrid Brambell) to a hospital and encounters a door where she is too big to enter. Until she drinks a portion that makes a shrink.
It might be that I have never been to enamoured by the Alice in Wonderland story. This did not change my mind. It might be the bored looking expressionless Anne-Marie Mallik. I'm not sure if she was a bad actress or directed that way.
The gulf between her and other thespians ransing from Peter Sellers to John Gielgud to Michael Redgrave was vast. It certainly is a curiosity.