Chicago – I’m not sure if Gene Roddenberry ever read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 French novella, but even before “Star Trek” first aired in 1966, kids everywhere since 1943 recall one of the first space explorers to voyage where no boy has gone before: “The Little Prince”.
“One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~ The Little Prince
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
So when Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company (co-founded by David Schwimmer of “Friends” fame) decided to bring it to life on stage, it gave me the opportunity to bring an imaginative 9-year-old book lover to see it after I recently read to her the pop-up version of the story.
Amelia Hefferon (left, The Little Prince) and Kasey Foster (Fox) in the Lookingglass Theatre’s “The Little Prince”.
Photo credit: Liz Lauren
“The Little Prince” (which my mom read to me as a kid) still sits...
“One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~ The Little Prince
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
So when Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company (co-founded by David Schwimmer of “Friends” fame) decided to bring it to life on stage, it gave me the opportunity to bring an imaginative 9-year-old book lover to see it after I recently read to her the pop-up version of the story.
Amelia Hefferon (left, The Little Prince) and Kasey Foster (Fox) in the Lookingglass Theatre’s “The Little Prince”.
Photo credit: Liz Lauren
“The Little Prince” (which my mom read to me as a kid) still sits...
- 12/15/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – “It really doesn’t matter which direction you go,” counsels one of Wonderland’s mischievous denizens at the onset of Alice’s most transmogrifying of journeys. For David Catlin, the cunningly innovative adaptor and director of Lookingglass Theatre’s take on Lewis Carroll’s treasured canon, it matters not whether the real Alice Liddell traveled upward, downward, backward or sideways on the famed rowing boat trip that would later bear her whimsical stories. At Lookingglass, adventure is the only direction worth taking.
Play Rating: 4.5/5.0
Forgoing the more recent and bellicose film interpretations, Lookingglass has once again mounted its decidedly percipient excursion down Carroll’s rabbit hole. What “Alice” wants in vicious swordplay and grisly Jabberwocks it abounds in fancy, employing feats of aerial choreography to conjure its magic. It may be her fourth trip to the Red Queen’s court, but this “Alice” is back in a shrewder way,...
Play Rating: 4.5/5.0
Forgoing the more recent and bellicose film interpretations, Lookingglass has once again mounted its decidedly percipient excursion down Carroll’s rabbit hole. What “Alice” wants in vicious swordplay and grisly Jabberwocks it abounds in fancy, employing feats of aerial choreography to conjure its magic. It may be her fourth trip to the Red Queen’s court, but this “Alice” is back in a shrewder way,...
- 7/3/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Most adolescent boys do away with their freshly-acquired Bar Mitzvah money before you can say “Haftorah”. But not David Schwimmer. Instead, the Lookingglass Theatre Company co-founder and “Friends” superstar mounted what was to become his theatre company’s most illustrious and withstanding production, “Lookingglass Alice”, based on the cherished novels of Lewis Carroll. The company’s Artistic Director David Catlin recently caught up with HollywoodChicago.com to discuss the adaptation and production process for Alice’s latest journey (now playing through August 1, 2010 at the Water Tower), and why this fourth trip down the rabbit hole just may be the best yet.
”Lookingglass Alice”
Photo credit: Courtesy of Lookingglass Theatre Company
HollywoodChicago: This is the fourth time Chicago audiences will be treated to “Lookingglass Alice”. For our readers who do not know the story, take me back to 1987 when this production was first getting developed.
David Catlin (DC): We...
”Lookingglass Alice”
Photo credit: Courtesy of Lookingglass Theatre Company
HollywoodChicago: This is the fourth time Chicago audiences will be treated to “Lookingglass Alice”. For our readers who do not know the story, take me back to 1987 when this production was first getting developed.
David Catlin (DC): We...
- 6/25/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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